New Narratives of Urban Space in Republican Chinese Cities

Emerging Social, Legal and Governance Orders
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-04-24990-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 284 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 1280 g

Reihe: Brill's Series on Modern East Asia in a Global Historical Perspective

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

So, Billy K.L.

Zelin, Madeleine

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 Urban Space in Republican Chinese Cities as Seen Through Cultural Narratives: A Prologue
Billy K.L. So and Madeleine Zelin

Part 1. Social Order
Chapter 2 Changing Spaces and Civilized Weddings in Republican China
Antonia Finnane
Chapter 3 City-building, the New Life Movement, and the "Making of the Citizen" in 1930s Nanchang
Federica Ferlanti
Chapter 4 Wartime Refugee Relief in Chinese Cities and Women's Political Activism, 1937-1940
Harriet Zurndorfer

Part 2. Law and Order
Chapter 5 Unorganized Crime: Forgers, Soldiers, and Shopkeepers in Beijing, 1927, 1928
Brett Sheehan
Chapter 6 The Ordering of Crime in Republican Beijing from the 1910s to the 1930s
Michael Hoi Kit Ng
Chapter 7 Dangerous Cities: Judicial Authorities, Criminologists, and the Perception of Crime Zones in 1920s and 1930s China
Jan Kiely

Part 3. Goverance Order
Chapter 8 British Concessions and Chinese Cities, 1910-1930s
Robert Bickers
Chapter 9 Provincializing the City: Canton and the Reshaping of Guangdong Provincial Administration, 1912-1937
John Fitzgerald
Chapter 10 Xi'an, 1900-1940: From Isolated Backwater to Resistance Center
Pierre-Etienne Will

Über Autor(innen)

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).