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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808930903321

Autore

Xue Fengxuan

Titolo

Chinese city and urbanism [[electronic resource] ] : evolution and development / / Victor F.S. Sit

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific, 2010

ISBN

1-282-76208-7

9786612762086

981-4293-73-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (356 p.)

Disciplina

307.760951

Soggetti

Urbanization - China - History

Cities and towns - Growth - China - History

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

Contents; Introduction; Preface; About the Author; List of Maps and Figures; List of Tables; Chapter 1: Introducing the Chinese Case: Its Origin and Stages of Development; Chapter 2: From Village to Proto-Urban Settlements of Late Yangshao Period; Chapter 3: Longshan City-States; Chapter 4: Urbanism in the Early Bronze Age State of the Xia; Chapter 5: Shang Urbanism at the Climax of Bronze Metallurgy; Chapter 6: From Feudalism to Commercial-Industrial Cities: Zhou Dynasty and the Warring States; Chapter 7: The Administrative City of Qin and Han

Chapter 8: Tang: Golden Age of the Confucian ModelChapter 9: Song Renaissance and the New Urbanity; Chapter 10: Ming Dynasty: Urban Reconstruction and Resurgence after the Yuan Dynasty; Chapter 11: Qing Urbanization: From Neo-Confucian Orthodoxy to Semi-Colonialism; Chapter 12: People's Republic: The Unsettled Socialist Approach; Chapter 13: Message from Chinese Urbanism; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The purpose of this volume is to treat the progress of history, civilization and urban development of China together in order to demonstrate the unique qualities of Chinese civilization. The author uses historical dynasties as the vertical dimension, starting from the pre-urban origin of round-moat village settlements of the Yangzhou



Period, until the most recent transitional city under the present socialist market system. There are a total of 13 chapters, covering a time-span of roughly 6,000 years. The book also discusses the theoretical context of the uniqueness of Chinese urban evolution a