LEADER 04751nam 22012134a 450 001 9911148936703321 005 20251117115104.0 010 $a9786612356575 010 $a9780585456321 010 $a9780520927636 010 $a052092763X 010 $a9781282356573 010 $a1282356577 010 $a9781597348621 010 $a1597348627 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520927636 035 $a(CKB)111087027178616 035 $a(EBL)223513 035 $a(OCoLC)475928233 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000236292 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11187831 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000236292 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10173387 035 $a(PQKB)10738675 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000055964 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC223513 035 $a(OCoLC)52470842 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse30759 035 $a(DE-B1597)520897 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520927636 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL223513 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10048749 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL235657 035 $a(Perlego)2319737 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111087027178616 100 $a20021218d2003 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRepublican Beijing $ethe city and its histories /$fMadeleine Yue Dong ; with a foreword by Thomas Bender 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (406 p.) 225 1 $aAsia--local studies/global themes ;$v8 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9780520230507 311 08$a0520230507 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 345-363) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tForeword --$tPreface --$tIntroduction --$tPART I. The City of Planners --$tPART II. The City of Experience --$tPART III. The Lettered City --$tConclusion --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aOld Beijing has become a subject of growing fascination in contemporary China since the 1980's. While physical remnants from the past are being bulldozed every day to make space for glass-walled skyscrapers and towering apartment buildings, nostalgia for the old city is booming. Madeleine Yue Dong offers the first comprehensive history of Republican Beijing, examining how the capital acquired its identity as a consummately "traditional" Chinese city. For residents of Beijing, the heart of the city lay in the labor-intensive activities of "recycling," a primary mode of material and cultural production and circulation that came to characterize Republican Beijing. An omnipresent process of recycling and re-use unified Beijing's fragmented and stratified markets into one circulation system. These material practices evoked an air of nostalgia that permeated daily life. Paradoxically, the "old Beijing" toward which this nostalgia was directed was not the imperial capital of the past, but the living Republican city. Such nostalgia toward the present, the author argues, was not an empty sentiment, but an essential characteristic of Chinese modernity. 410 0$aAsia--local studies/global themes ;$v8. 606 $aHISTORY / Asia / General$2bisacsh 607 $aBeijing (China)$xHistory 607 $aChina$xHistory$yRepublic, 1912-1949 610 $aarchitecture. 610 $aasia. 610 $abeihai park. 610 $abeihai. 610 $abeijing. 610 $abrothels. 610 $achina. 610 $achinese empire. 610 $achinese history. 610 $achinese literature. 610 $achinese republic. 610 $acity development. 610 $acity planning. 610 $acommercialization of history. 610 $aeconomics. 610 $afolk art. 610 $ahistorical memory. 610 $ahistory. 610 $aimperial city. 610 $amarkets. 610 $amodernity. 610 $amodernization. 610 $anonfiction. 610 $anostalgia. 610 $aold beijing. 610 $apaper collectors. 610 $aragpickers. 610 $arecycling. 610 $arepublic. 610 $arepublican beijing. 610 $asocial change. 610 $asocial history. 610 $asociology. 610 $astreet food. 610 $atianqiao. 610 $atourism. 610 $atradition. 610 $aurban. 615 7$aHISTORY / Asia / General. 676 $a951/.15604 700 $aDong$b Madeleine Yue$f1964-$01470925 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911148936703321 996 $aRepublican Beijing$94851630 997 $aUNINA