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Overview"Old Beijing has become a subject of growing fascination in contemporary China since the 1980s. 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." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Madeleine Yue Dong , Thomas BenderPublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press Volume: 8 Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.771kg ISBN: 9780520230507ISBN 10: 0520230507 Pages: 403 Publication Date: 04 August 2003 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword Preface Introduction PART I. THE CITY OF PLANNERS Chapter 1. From Imperial Capital to Republican City Chapter 2. Power: The City and Its People Chapter 3. Tradition: The City and the Nation PART II. THE CITY OF EXPERIENCE Chapter 4. Production: Beijing in a New Economic System Chapter 5. Consumption: Spatial and Temporal Hierarchies Chapter 6. Recycling: The Tianqiao District PART III. THE LETTERED CITY Chapter 7. Sociology: Examining Urban Ills Chapter 8. History: Recording Old Beijing Chapter 9. Literature: Writing New Beijing Conclusion Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsAuthor InformationMadeleine Yue Dong is Associate Professor of History at the Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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