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OverviewThis book offers a new perspective on Chinese urban history by exploring cities as habitable spaces. China, the world’s most populous nation, is now its newest urban society, and the pace of this unprecedented historical transformation has increased in recent decades. The contributors to this book conceptualise cities as first providing the necessities of life, and then becoming places in which the quality of life can be improved. They focus on how cities have been made secure during times of instability, how their inhabitants have consumed everything from the simplest of foods to the most expensive luxuries, and how they have been planned as ideal spaces. Drawing examples from across the country, this book offers comparisons between different cities, highlights continuities across time and space—and in doing so may provide solutions to some of the problems that continue to affect Chinese cities today. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Toby Lincoln , Xu TaoPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Edition: 1st ed. 2017 Dimensions: Width: 14.80cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 21.00cm Weight: 4.199kg ISBN: 9781137554703ISBN 10: 1137554703 Pages: 231 Publication Date: 24 November 2016 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents1. Introduction: The Habitable City in Chinese History .- 2. The Chinese Corpsmen in the Shanghai Volunteer Corps .- 3. Kunimg Dreaming: Hope, Change, and War in the Autobiographies of Youth in China’s Southwest .- 4. Securing the City, Securing the Nation: Militerization and Urban Police Work in Dalian, 1945-1953 .- 5. To See and Be Seen: Horse Racing in Shanghai, 1848-1945 .- 6. Second Class Workers: Gender, Industry and Locality in Workers' Welfare Provision in Revolutionary China .- 7. A utopian Garden City: Zhang Jingsheng’s ‘Beautiful Beijing’ .- 8. Habitability in the Treaty Ports: Shanghai and Tianjin .- 9. Urbanization and Nature in China: the example of Lake Tai .- 10. Conclusion.ReviewsAuthor InformationToby Lincoln is Lecturer in Modern Chinese Urban History at the Centre for Urban History, University of Leicester, UK. He is a historian of urbanization in China, the history of urban planning in the twentieth century, and the interaction between war and the city. His most recent publication is Urbanizing China in War and Peace: the Case of Wuxi County (2015). Xu Tao is Assistant Professor at the Institute of History in the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, China. His research focuses on mobility and transport in the context of urban history and the study of politics in China. He has published two monographs and over twenty articles in Chinese and English, including A History of the Bicycle and Modern China (自行车与近代中国, 2015). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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