New Narratives of Urban Space in Republican Chinese Cities
Emerging Social, Legal and Governance Orders
Series: Brill's Series on Modern East Asia in a Global Historical Perspective; 2;
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Product details:
- Publisher BRILL
- Date of Publication 21 March 2013
- ISBN 9789004249905
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages284 pages
- Size 235x155 mm
- Weight 1280 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
New Narratives of Urban Space in Republican Chinese Cities offers nine empirical studies to examine the social, legal and governance dimensions of the great urban transformation in Republican China pertaining to the cultural realm of the urban space.
MoreLong description:
The nine empirical studies in New Narratives of Urban Space in Republican Chinese Cities, organized under the general framework of urban space, examine three critical dimensions of the great urban transformation in Republican China?social, legal and governance orders. Together these narratives suggest a new perception of this historical urbanism.
While modern economic development was a major drive for Chinese urban transformation, this volume highlights the dimension of the multilayered forces that shape urban space by looking into that less quantifiable, but equally important cultural realm and by exposing the ways in which these forces created new urban narratives, which became themselves shapers of urban space and of our perception of the Republican urbanity.
"The chapters reveal trends that complicate the quest to locate Habermasian public spaces in the volatile urban formations of a politically fragmented and conflict-ridden nation."
Brian Tsui, The Australian National University, New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies 15.2 (December 2013)
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1 Urban Space in Republican Chinese Cities as Seen Through Cultural Narratives: A Prologue
Billy K.L. So and Madeleine Zelin
Part 1. Social Order
Chapter 2 Changing Spaces and Civilized Weddings in Republican China
Antonia Finnane
Chapter 3 City
-building, the New Life Movement, and the "Making of the Citizen" in 1930s Nanchang
Federica Ferlanti
Chapter 4 Wartime Refugee Relief in Chinese Cities and Women's Political Activism, 1937
-1940
Harriet Zurndorfer
Part 2. Law and Order
Chapter 5 Unorganized Crime: Forgers, Soldiers, and Shopkeepers in Beijing, 1927, 1928
Brett Sheehan
Chapter 6 The Ordering of Crime in Republican Beijing from the 1910s to the 1930s
Michael Hoi Kit Ng
Chapter 7 Dangerous Cities: Judicial Authorities, Criminologists, and the Perception of Crime Zones in 1920s and 1930s China
Jan Kiely
Part 3. Goverance Order
Chapter 8 British Concessions and Chinese Cities, 1910
-1930s
Robert Bickers
Chapter 9 Provincializing the City: Canton and the Reshaping of Guangdong Provincial Administration, 1912
-1937
John Fitzgerald
Chapter 10 Xi'an, 1900
-1940: From Isolated Backwater to Resistance Center
Pierre
-Etienne Will
New Narratives of Urban Space in Republican Chinese Cities: Emerging Social, Legal and Governance Orders
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