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This volume offers a fresh perspective on how Chinese cities were transformed or "Westernized" in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries and how Asian and Western cities received Chinese influ...
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This volume offers a fresh perspective on how Chinese cities were transformed or "Westernized" in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries and how Asian and Western cities received Chinese influences dispatched through the media of commerce and migration.
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Price: $32.00
Pages: 322
Publisher: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Imprint: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Series: China Research Monograph
Publication Date: 01 January 2007
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781557290892
Format: Paperback
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David Strand is Charles A. Dana Professor of Political Science at Dickinson College. Education: B.A. Lawrence University, M.A. Columbia University, M. Phil. Columbia University, Ph.D. Columbia University

Sherman Cochran is Hu Shih Professor Emeritus of Chinese History at Cornell University. Education: B.A. Yale University, M.A. Yale University, Ph.D. Yale University

Wen-hsin Yeh is professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley. She has served as the director of the Institute of East Asian Studies and the chair of the Center for Chinese Studies at Berkeley. She has edited and contributed to many IEAS publications, including Mobile Subjects; Mobile Horizons; History in Images; Cities in Motion; Empire, Nation, and Beyond; Cross-Cultural Readings of Chineseness; Landscape, Culture, and Space in Chinese Society; and Shanghai Sojourners. Education: B.A., History, National Taiwan University; M.A., History, University of Southern California; Ph.D., History, University of California, Berkeley

Cities in Motion: An Introduction

David Strand and Sherman Cochran

Part I: Organizing Urban Life

1. Grave Concerns: Bodies, Burial, and Identity in Early Republican China
    Caroline Reeves

2. Warfare and Modern Urban Administration in Chinese Cities
    Kristin Stapleton

Part II: Movements and Networking

3. Webs and Hierarchies: Banks and Bankers in Motion, 1900–1950
    Brett Sheehan

4. To the Countryside: Communist Recruitment in Wartime Shanghai
    Allison Rottmann

Part III: Importing the Modern City

5. Architects as Cultural Heroes
    Vimalin Rujivacharakul

6. Shanghai Fashion: Merchants and Business as Agents of Urban Vision
    Karl Gerth

7. Visions of Order and Modernity: Crime, Punishment, and Justice in Urban China during the Republican Period
    Klaus Mühlhahn

Part IV: Exporting the Chinese City

8. Exporting Homosociality: Culture and Community in Chinatown America, 1882–1943
    Madeline Hsu

9. Moving Bones: Hong Kong's Role as an "In-between Place" in the Chinese Diaspora
    Elizabeth Sinn

10. Charisma in Motion: The Compassion Relief Movement in Taiwan, Japan, Malaysia, and the United States
    Robert P. Weller and C. Julia Huang

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