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New Narratives of Urban Space in Republican Chinese Cities

Emerging Social, Legal and Governance Orders

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

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The nine empirical studies in New Narratives of Urban Space in Republican Chinese Cities, organized under the general framework of urban space, examine three critical dimensions of the great urban transformation in Republican China—social, legal and governance orders. Together these narratives suggest a new perception of this historical urbanism.While modern economic development was a major drive for Chinese urban transformation, this volume highlights the dimension of the multilayered forces that shape urban space by looking into that less quantifiable, but equally important cultural realm and by exposing the ways in which these forces created new urban narratives, which became themselves shapers of urban space and of our perception of the Republican urbanity.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2013-03-21
Mått155 x 235 x 21 mm
Vikt1 280 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieBrill's Series on Modern East Asia in a Global Historical Perspective
Antal sidor284
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004249905

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Billy K. L. So (PhD, Australian National University, 1983) is Chair Professor of Humanities at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He published extensively on Chinese legal and business history including Prosperity, Region, and Institutions in Maritime China (Harvard, 2000). Madeleine Zelin (PhD, University of California at Berkeley, 1979) is Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies at Columbia University. She has published extensively on Chinese economic and legal history, including The Merchants of Zigong, Industrial Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China (Columbia, 2005).

Chapter 1 Urban Space in Republican Chinese Cities as Seen Through Cultural Narratives: A PrologueBilly K.L. So and Madeleine ZelinPart 1. Social OrderChapter 2 Changing Spaces and Civilized Weddings in Republican ChinaAntonia FinnaneChapter 3 City-building, the New Life Movement, and the "Making of the Citizen" in 1930s NanchangFederica FerlantiChapter 4 Wartime Refugee Relief in Chinese Cities and Women's Political Activism, 1937-1940Harriet ZurndorferPart 2. Law and OrderChapter 5 Unorganized Crime: Forgers, Soldiers, and Shopkeepers in Beijing, 1927, 1928Brett SheehanChapter 6 The Ordering of Crime in Republican Beijing from the 1910s to the 1930sMichael Hoi Kit NgChapter 7 Dangerous Cities: Judicial Authorities, Criminologists, and the Perception of Crime Zones in 1920s and 1930s ChinaJan KielyPart 3. Goverance OrderChapter 8 British Concessions and Chinese Cities, 1910-1930sRobert BickersChapter 9 Provincializing the City: Canton and the Reshaping of Guangdong Provincial Administration, 1912-1937John FitzgeraldChapter 10 Xi'an, 1900-1940: From Isolated Backwater to Resistance CenterPierre-Etienne Will