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Republican Beijing [[electronic resource] ] : the city and its histories / / Madeleine Yue Dong ; with a foreword by Thomas Bender



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Autore: Dong Madeleine Yue <1964-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Republican Beijing [[electronic resource] ] : the city and its histories / / Madeleine Yue Dong ; with a foreword by Thomas Bender Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (406 p.)
Disciplina: 951/.15604
Soggetto topico: HISTORY / Asia / General
Soggetto geografico: Beijing (China) History
China History Republic, 1912-1949
Soggetto non controllato: architecture
asia
beihai park
beihai
beijing
brothels
china
chinese empire
chinese history
chinese literature
chinese republic
city development
city planning
commercialization of history
economics
folk art
historical memory
history
imperial city
markets
modernity
modernization
nonfiction
nostalgia
old beijing
paper collectors
ragpickers
recycling
republic
republican beijing
social change
social history
sociology
street food
tianqiao
tourism
tradition
urban
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-363) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: Old 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Republican Beijing  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-92763-X
9786612356575
1-282-35657-7
9780585456321
1-59734-862-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910780244703321
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Serie: Asia--local studies/global themes ; ; 8.