| New Narratives of Urban Space in Republican Chinese Cities: Emerging Social, Legal and Governance Orders Contributor(s): So, Billy K. L., Zelin, Madeleine |
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ISBN: 9004249907 ISBN-13: 9789004249905 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $172.90 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Development - Social Science | Sociology - Urban |
| Dewey: 307.121 |
| LCCN: 2012051074 |
| Series: Brill's Modern East Asia in a Global Historical Perspective |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.1" W x 9.3" (1.25 lbs) 296 pages |
| Themes: - Demographic Orientation - Urban |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The nine empirical studies in New Narratives of Urban Space in Republican Chinese Cities, organized under the general framework of urban space, examine three critical dimensions of the great urban transformation in Republican China--social, legal and governance orders. Together these narratives suggest a new perception of this historical urbanism. While modern economic development was a major drive for Chinese urban transformation, this volume highlights the dimension of the multilayered forces that shape urban space by looking into that less quantifiable, but equally important cultural realm and by exposing the ways in which these forces created new urban narratives, which became themselves shapers of urban space and of our perception of the Republican urbanity. |