The Habitable City in China (eBook)
XI, 231 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan US (Verlag)
978-1-137-55471-0 (ISBN)
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).
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 HistoryToby Lincoln and Xu Tao2. The Chinese Corpsmen in the Shanghai Volunteer CorpsXu Tao3. Kunming Dreaming: Hope, Change, and War in the Autobiographies of Youth in China’s SouthwestAaron William Moore4. Securing the City, Securing the Nation: Militarization and Urban Police Work in Dalian, 1945-1953Christian A. Hess5. To See and Be Seen: Horse Racing in Shanghai, 1848-1945Ning Jennifer Chang6. Second Class Workers: Gender, Industry, and Locality in Workers’ Welfare Provision in Revolutionary ChinaRobert Cliver7. A Utopian Garden City: Zhang Jingsheng’s ‘Beautiful Beijing’Leon Antonio Rocha8. Habitability in the Treaty Ports: Shanghai and TianjinIsabella Jackson9. Urbanization and Nature in China: the example of Lake TaiToby Lincoln10. ConclusionKarl Gerth
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 21.11.2016 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Politics and Development of Contemporary China | Politics and Development of Contemporary China |
| Zusatzinfo | XI, 231 p. 1 illus. |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | 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 | |
| Technik ► Architektur | |
| Schlagworte | 20th century • China • Chinese cities • Cities • Habitable city • History • History of Literature • Ideal space • instability • Necessities of life • quality of life • Time and Space • Transformation • Urban History |
| ISBN-10 | 1-137-55471-1 / 1137554711 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-137-55471-0 / 9781137554710 |
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