Making place
Subtitle: state projects, globalisation and local responses in China
By: edited by Stephan Feuchtwang.
Contributors: Feuchtwang, Stephan.
Publisher: UCL; Cavendish
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London; Portland, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
Subjects: Group identity -- China.; Globalization -- Social aspects -- China.; Spatial behavior -- China.; China -- Social conditions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: INTRODUCTION; title: Theorising place -- Stephan Feuchtwang -- PART 1 : URBAN PLACES; title: Mapping 'chaos': the Dong Xi Fo feuds of Quanzhou, 1644-1839 -- Wang Mingming; title: Breathing new life into Beijing culture: new 'traditional' public spaces and the Chaoyang neighbourhood Yangge associations -- Florence Graezer; title: Establishing 'home' away from home: Chinese migrants in the industrial transformation of Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong -- Graham Johnson; title: Traditional territories in a contemporary city: agency and policy in the preservation of hereditary rights -- Elizabeth Lominska Johnson -- PART 2 : RURAL PLACES; title: 'The place where the age wouldn't go' and 'the place where the sage was born': mutual definitions of place in Shandong and Heilongjiang -- Zhao Bingxiang; title: Hmong places and locality -- Nicholas Tapp; title: Senses of local place and the temples of West Hunan -- Mary Rack; title: Curves and the urbanisation of Meifa village -- Stephan Feuchtwang -- AFTERWORD; title: Space and time -- Laurie Kain Hart.