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China's Contested Capital : Architecture, Ritual, and Response in Nanjing /

When the Chinese Nationalist Party nominally reunified the country in 1928, Chiang Kai-shek and other party leaders insisted that Nanjing was better suited than Beijing to serve as its capital. For the next decade, until the Japanese invasion in 1937, Nanjing was the "model capital" of Nat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Musgrove, Charles D., 1970- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The capital established
  • Visions of grandeur in the capital plan
  • Administrative aesthetics and "architectural revolution"
  • The necropolis of Nanjing
  • Lessons in allure : celebrations of state in the capital
  • Views from the street: development, defiance & discipline.