China: A Historical Geography of the Urban / edited by Yannan Ding, Maurizio Marinelli, Xiaohong Zhang.
Ding, Yannan, editor.; Marinelli, Maurizio, editor.; Zhang, Xiaohong, editor.
2018
HT101-HT395
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Title China: A Historical Geography of the Urban / edited by Yannan Ding, Maurizio Marinelli, Xiaohong Zhang.
ISBN 9783319640426
3319640429
3319640410
9783319640419
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64042-6
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (XI, 255 pages 20 illustrations, 10 illustrations in color.) : online resource
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-319-64042-6 doi
Call Number HT101-HT395
Dewey Decimal Classification 307.760951
Summary This book offers a unique contribution to the burgeoning field of Chinese historical geography. Urban transformation in China constitutes both a domestic revolution and a world-historical event. Through the exploration of nine urban sites of momentous change, over an extended period of time, this book connects the past with the present, and provides much-needed literature on city growth and how they became complex laboratories of prosperity. The first part of this book puts Chinese urban changes into historical perspective, and probes the relationship between nation and city, focusing on Shanghai, Beijing and Changchun. Part two deals with the relationship between history and modernity, concentrating on Tunxi, a traditional trade center of tea, New Villages in Shanghai and street names in Taipei and Shanghai. Part three showcases the complexities of urban regeneration vis-à-vis heritage preservation in cities such as Datong, Tianjin and Qingdao. This book offers an innovative interdisciplinary and international perspective, which will be of interest to students and scholars of Chinese urban studies, as well Chinese politics and society.
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Marinelli, Maurizio, editor.
Zhang, Xiaohong, editor.
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Chapter 1. Introduction; Yannan Ding
PART I. Nation and City
Chapter 2. Shanghai Parks in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
Architectural and Cultural Exchanges between the East and the West; Hsiu-Ling Kuo. Chapter 3. A City of Workers, a City for Workers? Remaking Beijing Urban Space in the Early PRC; Fabio Lanza
Chapter 4. Changchun across 1949: Rebuilding a Colonial Capital City under Socialism in the Early 1950s; Yishi Liu
PART II. Mediating History and Modernity
Chapter 5. Tunxi: Urban Sectoral Agglomeration in a Regional Center of Tea Trade; Yi Zou, Xi Lin
Chapter 6. What's in a Name: The 'New Village' in Shanghai, 1930-1980; Duan Zheng, Xiaohong Zhang
Chapter 7. The View of Comparison about Politics of Street Names between Taipei and Shanghai; Wenchuan Huang.- PART III. Contemporary City Building
Chapter 8. Disneyfication or Self-referentiality: Recent Conservation Efforts and Modern Planning History in Datong; Shulan Fu, Jean Hillier
Chapter 9. The Politics of Aesthetics in Tianjin between Past and Present; Maurizio Marinelli
Chapter 10. Living in the "Past": The Effects of a Growing Preservation Discourse in Contemporary Urban China; Philipp Demgenski.

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