Civilizing Chengdu
Subtitle: Chinese Urban Reform, 1895-1937
Publisher: Harvard University Asia Center
Published: June 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780674002463
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: c 1500 to c 1900; Asian / Middle Eastern history: from c 1900 -; Urban & municipal planning; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; History; China - History - 20th Century; Urban Planning; Urbanization; History - General History; Political History; History: World; China; Asia - China; Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Dev.; History / China; Chengdu; Modern - 20th Century; City planning
Description: "Civilizing Chengdu examines urban planning and administration during modern China's first age of city-centered politics. Between 1895 and 1937, the management of cities emerged as one of the Chinese state's chief challenges.

Through a detailed study of the process as it took place in Chengdu, a key provincial capital in the interior, this book shows how urban reformers sought to remake Chinese cities by promoting a new type of orderly and productive urban community in population centers that before had been treated mainly as hubs for trade and seats of central government"--BOOK JACKET.