Urbanizing China in War and Peace : The Case of Wuxi County /
This work rewrites the history of rural-urban relations in the first half of the twentieth century by arguing that urbanization is a total societal transformation and as important a factor as revolution, nationalism, or modernity in the history of modern China.
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaiʻi Press,
2015.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The "Little Shanghai": urbanization of Wuxi City
- Elites and infrastructure: urbanization of the countryside
- Local elites and the state: managing Wuxi during the Warlord Era
- Abolish the county to establish the city (fei xian wei shi)
- The nationalist state and rural infrastructure
- A connected city: native place societies, migration, and disaster relief
- Threads of silk: economic recovery in occupied Wuxi
- The utility of rubble: rebuilding the city and the countryside
- The militarized environment: Japanese impact on daily life.