03538nam 22006974a 450 991045563670332120200520144314.00-520-92763-X97866123565751-282-35657-797805854563211-59734-862-710.1525/9780520927636(CKB)111087027178616(EBL)223513(OCoLC)475928233(SSID)ssj0000236292(PQKBManifestationID)11187831(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000236292(PQKBWorkID)10173387(PQKB)10738675(StDuBDS)EDZ0000055964(MiAaPQ)EBC223513(OCoLC)52470842(MdBmJHUP)muse30759(DE-B1597)520897(DE-B1597)9780520927636(Au-PeEL)EBL223513(CaPaEBR)ebr10048749(CaONFJC)MIL235657(EXLCZ)9911108702717861620021218d2003 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrRepublican Beijing[electronic resource] the city and its histories /Madeleine Yue Dong ; with a foreword by Thomas BenderBerkeley University of California Pressc20031 online resource (406 p.)Asia--local studies/global themes ;8Description based upon print version of record.0-520-23050-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-363) and index.Front matter --Contents --Illustrations --Foreword --Preface --Introduction --PART I. The City of Planners --PART II. The City of Experience --PART III. The Lettered City --Conclusion --Notes --Bibliography --IndexOld Beijing has become a subject of growing fascination in contemporary China since the 1980's. While physical remnants from the past are being bulldozed every day to make space for glass-walled skyscrapers and towering apartment buildings, nostalgia for the old city is booming. Madeleine Yue Dong offers the first comprehensive history of Republican Beijing, examining how the capital acquired its identity as a consummately "traditional" Chinese city. For residents of Beijing, the heart of the city lay in the labor-intensive activities of "recycling," a primary mode of material and cultural production and circulation that came to characterize Republican Beijing. An omnipresent process of recycling and re-use unified Beijing's fragmented and stratified markets into one circulation system. These material practices evoked an air of nostalgia that permeated daily life. Paradoxically, the "old Beijing" toward which this nostalgia was directed was not the imperial capital of the past, but the living Republican city. Such nostalgia toward the present, the author argues, was not an empty sentiment, but an essential characteristic of Chinese modernity.Asia--local studies/global themes ;8.HISTORY / Asia / GeneralbisacshBeijing (China)HistoryChinaHistoryRepublic, 1912-1949Electronic books.HISTORY / Asia / General.951/.15604Dong Madeleine Yue1964-846317MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910455636703321Republican Beijing2468616UNINA