Chinese city and urbanism [[electronic resource] ] : evolution and development / / Victor F.S. Sit
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| Autore: |
Xue Fengxuan
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| Titolo: |
Chinese city and urbanism [[electronic resource] ] : evolution and development / / Victor F.S. Sit
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| Pubblicazione: | Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (356 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 307.760951 |
| Soggetto topico: | Urbanization - China - History |
| Cities and towns - Growth - China - History | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Chinese city and urbanism |
| ISBN: | 1-282-76208-7 |
| 9786612762086 | |
| 981-4293-73-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910456160103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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