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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.
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.
Price: $191.00
Pages: 284
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Brill's Series on Modern East Asia in a Global Historical Perspective
Publication Date:
21 March 2013
ISBN: 9789004249905
Format: Hardcover
"The chapters reveal trends that complicate the quest to locate Habermasian public spaces in the volatile urban formations of a politically fragmented and conflict-ridden nation."
Brian Tsui, The Australian National University, New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies 15.2 (December 2013)
Brian Tsui, The Australian National University, New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies 15.2 (December 2013)
Billy K. L. So (PhD, Australian National University, 1983) is Chair Professor of Humanities at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He published extensively on Chinese legal and business history including Prosperity, Region, and Institutions in Maritime China (Harvard, 2000).
Madeleine Zelin (PhD, University of California at Berkeley, 1979) is Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies at Columbia University. She has published extensively on Chinese economic and legal history, including The Merchants of Zigong, Industrial Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China (Columbia, 2005).
Madeleine Zelin (PhD, University of California at Berkeley, 1979) is Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies at Columbia University. She has published extensively on Chinese economic and legal history, including The Merchants of Zigong, Industrial Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China (Columbia, 2005).