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The Habitable City in China

Urban History in the Twentieth Century

Toby Lincoln, Xu Tao (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
231 Seiten
2016 | 1st ed. 2017
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-55470-3 (ISBN)

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This 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.

Toby 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).

1. 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.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Politics and Development of Contemporary China
Zusatzinfo 1 Illustrations, black and white; XI, 231 p. 1 illus.
Verlagsort Basingstoke
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Allgemeines / Lexika
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geografie / Kartografie
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Systeme
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
Schlagworte China • Chinese cities • Habitable city • Ideal space • instability • Necessities of life • quality of life • Time and Space • Transformation • Urban History
ISBN-10 1-137-55470-3 / 1137554703
ISBN-13 978-1-137-55470-3 / 9781137554703
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