China: A Historical Geography of the Urban

Yannan Ding is a Swire - Cathay Pacific visiting academic at St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford, UK. Maurizio Marinelli is Associate Professor in East Asian History and Co-Director of the Asia Centre at the University of Sussex, UK. Xiaohong Zhang is a professor and the head of the Institute of Chinese Historical Geography at Fudan University, China.

• 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 ModernPlanning 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.