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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786208803321

Titolo

New narratives of urban space in Republican Chinese cities [[electronic resource] ] : emerging social, legal, and governance orders / / edited by Billy Kee Long So and Madeleine Zelin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2013

ISBN

90-04-24991-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (296 p.)

Collana

Brill's series on modern East Asia in a global historical perspective ; ; vol. 2

Altri autori (Persone)

SoBilly K. L <1952-> (Billy Kee Long)

ZelinMadeleine

Disciplina

307.1/2160951

Soggetti

City planning - China

Public spaces - China

Urbanization - China

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- 1. Urban Space in Republican Chinese Cities as Seen through Cultural Narratives: A Prologue / Billy K. L. So and Madeleine Zelin -- 2. Changing Spaces and Civilized Weddings in Republican China / Antonia Finnane -- 3. City-Building, New Life and the ‘Making of the Citizen’ in 1930's Nanchang / Federica Ferlanti -- 4. Wartime Refugee Relief in Chinese Cities and Women’s Political Activism, 1937–1940 / Harriet Zurndorfer -- 5. Unorganized Crime: Forgers, Soldiers, and Shopkeepers in Beijing, 1927, 1928 / Brett Sheehan -- 6. The Ordering of Crime in Republican Beijing from the 1910's to the 1930's / Michael Hoi Kit Ng -- 7. Dangerous Cities: Judicial Authorities, Criminologists, and the Perception of Crime Zones in 1920's and 1930's China / Jan Kiely -- 8. British Concessions and Chinese Cities, 1910's–1930's / Robert Bickers -- 9. Provincializing the City: Canton and the Reshaping of Guangdong Provincial Administration, 1912–1937 / John Fitzgerald -- 10. Xi’an, 1900–1940: From Isolated Backwater to Resistance Center / Pierre-Étienne Will -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

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.