Remaking the Chinese City: Modernity and National Identity, 1900-1950 9780824864125
In China today skyscrapers tower over ancient temples, freeways deliver lines of cars and tour buses to imperial palaces
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Table of contents :
Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Chapter 1. Modernity and Nation in the Chinese City
Part I: The Modernist City
Chapter 2. Canton Remapped
Chapter 3. Hygienic Modernity in Tianjin
Chapter 4. Urban Identity and Urban Networks in Cosmopolitan Cities: Banks and Bankers in Tianjin, 1900–1937
Chapter 5. Railway City and National Capital Two Faces of the Modern in Changchun
Chapter 6. Yang Sen in Chengdu Urban Planning in the Interior
Part II: Tradition and Modernity
Chapter 7. Tourism and Spatial Change in Hangzhou, 1911–1927
Chapter 8. Defining Beiping Urban Reconstruction and National Identity, 1928–1936
Chapter 9. Building a Dream Constructing a National Capital in Nanjing, 1927–1937
Part III: City and Nation
Chapter 10. Wuhan’s Search for Identity in the Republican Period
Chapter 11. The City as Nation: Creating a Wartime Capital in Chongqing
Chapter 12. Locating Old Shanghai Having Fits about Where It Fits
Chapter 13. New Chinese Cities
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
