Remaking the Chinese city
Subtitle: modernity and national identity, 1900-1950
By: edited by Joseph W. Esherick.
Contributors: Esherick, Joseph.
Edition: Pbk. ed.
Publisher: University of Hawaiʻi Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
Subjects: Cities and towns -- China -- History -- 20th century; China -- Civilization -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-271) and index.
Table of contents: title: Modernity and nation in the Chinese city / Joseph W. Esherick; title: Canton remapped / Michael Tsin; title: Hygienic modernity in Tianjin / Ruth Rogaski; title: Urban identity and urban networks in cosmopolitan cities: banks and bankers in Tianjin, 1900-1937 / Brett Sheehan; title: Railway city and national capital: two faces of the modern in Changchun / David D. Buck; title: Yang Sen in Chengdu: urban planning in the interior / Kristin Stapleton; title: Tourism and spatial change in Hangzhou, 1911-1927 / Liping Wang; title: Defining Beiping: urban reconstruction and national identity, 1928-1936 / Madeleine Yue Dong; title: Building a dream: constructing a national capital in Nanjing, 1927-1937 / Charles D. Musgrove; title: Wuhan's search for identity in the Republican period / Stephen R. MacKinnon; title: The city as nation: creating a wartime capital in Chongqing / Lee McIsaac; title: Locating old Shanghai: having fits about where it fits / Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom; title: New Chinese cities / David Strand.