The making and selling of post-Mao Beijing / Anne-Marie Broudehoux.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Broudehoux, Anne-Marie.

Series:

Planning, history, and the environment series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beijing (China).

Physical Description:

ix, 270 pages : illustrations, plans ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.

Summary:

"The Making and Selling of Post-Mao Beijing" explores the transformation of the Chinese capital both socially and physically during the final decades of the twentieth century. The author reveals the changing life of the city and its inhabitants and examines the complex and multiple forces at play in this transformation.

Contents:

Fin de millinaire Beijing: the making and selling of a world metropolis

Selling the Chinese city: theory and practice of urban image construction

Selling the past: nationalism and the commodification of history at Yuanmingyuan

The malling of Wangfujing: commercial redevelopment in the selling of places

Staging the event-city: Olympics, anniversaries and the politics of city marketing

Contested visions: resistance, subversion, and the politics of urban redevelopment

The making and selling of Beijing.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [247]-265) and index.

ISBN:

0415320577

OCLC:

53375144