Civilizing Chengdu : Chinese urban reform, 1895-1937 / Kristin Stapleton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stapleton, Kristin, 1963-

Series:

Harvard East Asian monographs ; 186.

Harvard East Asian monographs ; 186

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urbanization--China--Chengdu.

Urbanization.

City planning--China--Chengdu.

City planning.

China--History--20th century.

China.

History.

China--Chengdu.

Physical Description:

xii, 341 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Chinese urban reform, 1895-1937

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Havard University Press, [2000]

Summary:

This work examines the history of urban planning and administration during modern China's first age of city-centered politics, focusing on the New Policies of the late Qing and the city administration movement of the 1920s. Between 1895 trod 1937, the management of cities emerged as one of the chief challenges for the Chinese state. Through a detailed case study, based on newly available archival sources, of the process of urban reform in Chengdu, a key provincial capital in the interior, Kristin Stapleton shows how urban reformers permanently changed urban administration, the urban landscape, and urban life by promoting a new type of orderly and productive community in population centers despite the many upheavals of the late Qing and Republican eras.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [305]-326) and index.

ISBN:

0674002466

OCLC:

42955425