Habitable city in china : urban history in the twentieth century.
2016
JA1-92
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Title Habitable city in china : urban history in the twentieth century.
ISBN 9781137554710 (electronic book)
1137554711 (electronic book)
1137554703
9781137554703
Publication Details [Place of publication not identified] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Item Number 9781137554703
Call Number JA1-92
Dewey Decimal Classification 320
Summary Annotation Offers a new perspective on Chinese urban history by exploring cities as habitable spaces. China, the world's most populous nation, is now its newest urban society, and the pace of this unprecedented historical transformation has increased in recent decades. The contributors to this book conceptualise cities as first providing the necessities of life, and then becoming places in which the quality of life can be improved. They focus on how cities have been made secure during times of instability, how their inhabitants have consumed everything from the simplest of foods to the most expensive luxuries, and how they have been planned as ideal spaces.
Note Annotation Offers a new perspective on Chinese urban history by exploring cities as habitable spaces. China, the world's most populous nation, is now its newest urban society, and the pace of this unprecedented historical transformation has increased in recent decades. The contributors to this book conceptualise cities as first providing the necessities of life, and then becoming places in which the quality of life can be improved. They focus on how cities have been made secure during times of instability, how their inhabitants have consumed everything from the simplest of foods to the most expensive luxuries, and how they have been planned as ideal spaces.
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Series Politics and Development of Contemporary China Ser.
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Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Contributors; List of Figures ; Chapter 1: Introduction: TheßHabitable City inßChineseßHistory; What Is Urban Habitability?; Urban Habitability inßHistorical Approaches toßtheßChinese City; Chapter Summary; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 2: The Chinese Corpsmen inßtheßShanghai Volunteer Corps; Introduction; The Creation ofßtheßChinese Physical Recreation Association; Incorporation into theßSVC; Struggling forßEqual Rights; The Creation ofßtheßInterpreter Company andßFinal Disbandment ofßtheßSVC; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Social Shanghai.

Chapter 3: Kunming Dreaming: Hope, Change, andßWar inßtheßAutobiographies ofßYouth inßChina's SouthwestLiving theßLiminal: Young People Think AboutßFamily, Society, andßNation atßChina's Periphery; Crossroads Kunming: Education, Youth, andßtheßCity atßtheßEnd ofßtheßNanjing Government; Notes; Bibliography; Unsigned Archival Manuscripts; Signed Archival Manuscripts; Published Materials and Library Special Collections; Chapter 4: Securing theßCity, Securing theßNation: Militarization andßUrban Police Work inßDalian, 1945-1953; Introduction.

Establishing andßTraining Communist China's First Urban Police ForceMilitarization; Combating Security Threats; Securing People andßResources; Dalian andßtheßKorean War: Localizing National Security; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 5: To See andßBeßSeen: Horse Racing inßShanghai, 1848-1945; Pillar ofßtheßForeign Community; To See andßBeßSeen; An Exotic Fun Spectacle; From Outsider toßInsider; Betting andßWatching; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 6: Second-Class Workers: Gender, Industry, andßLocality inßWorkers' Welfare Provision inßRevolutionary China; Introduction.

The Revolution inßtheßWuxi Silk FilaturesThe Revolution inßShanghai's Silk-Weaving Factories; Labor Relations, Gender Conflict, andß'Democratic Reform' inßtheßWuxi Filatures; Location: Welfare Benefits forßWorkers inßShanghai andßWuxi; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 7: A Utopian Garden City: Zhang Jingsheng's 'Beautiful Beijing'; Zhang Jingsheng's Sentimental Revolution; Utopian Bricolage andßAesthetic Energetics; Design forßaßBeautiful Beijing; From Blueprint toßPlan ofßAction; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 8: Habitability inßtheßTreaty Ports: Shanghai andßTianjin.

'Model Settlements'Expansion; Building Regulations; Public Spaces; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 9: Urbanization andßNature inßChina: TheßExample ofßLake Tai; Seeing theßLake; Republican Period; The Maoist Era; The Reform Era; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 10: Conclusion: Are Chinese Cities BecomingßMore Habitable?; Note; Bibliography; Index.

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