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Republican Beijing : the city and its histories / Madeleine Yue Dong.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Asia--local studies/global themes ; 8.Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, [(c)2003.]Description: 1 online resource (xxiii, 380 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520927636
  • 052092763X
  • 0585456321
  • 9780585456324
  • 1597348627
  • 9781597348621
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • DS795.3
Online resources:
Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART ONE: The City of Planners -- 1. From Imperial Capital to Republican City -- 2. Power: The City and Its People -- 3. Tradition: The City and the Nation -- PART TWO: The City of Experience -- 4. Production: Beijing in a New Economic System -- 5. Consumption: Spatial and Temporal Hierarchies -- 6. Recycling: The Tianqiao District -- PART THREE: The Lettered City -- 7. Sociology: Examining Urban Ills -- 8. History: Recording Old Beijing -- 9. Literature: Writing New Beijing -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
Summary: Old Beijing has become a subject of growing fascination in contemporary China since the 1980s. While physical remnants from the past are being bulldozed every day to make space for glass-walled skyscrapers and towering apartment buildings, nostalgia for the old city is booming.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART ONE: The City of Planners -- 1. From Imperial Capital to Republican City -- 2. Power: The City and Its People -- 3. Tradition: The City and the Nation -- PART TWO: The City of Experience -- 4. Production: Beijing in a New Economic System -- 5. Consumption: Spatial and Temporal Hierarchies -- 6. Recycling: The Tianqiao District -- PART THREE: The Lettered City -- 7. Sociology: Examining Urban Ills -- 8. History: Recording Old Beijing -- 9. Literature: Writing New Beijing -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

Old Beijing has become a subject of growing fascination in contemporary China since the 1980s. While physical remnants from the past are being bulldozed every day to make space for glass-walled skyscrapers and towering apartment buildings, nostalgia for the old city is booming.

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