Enclave to urbanity : canton, foreigners, and architecture from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries / Johnathan Andrew Farris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Farris, Johnathan Andrew, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--China--Guangdong Sheng.

Architecture.

Architecture--China--Guangdong Sheng--History.

Urbanization--China--Guangdong Sheng.

Urbanization.

History.

China--Guangdong Sheng.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

vi, 257 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, 2016.

Summary:

Cross-cultural relations are spatial relations. Enclave to Urbanity is the first book in English that examines how the architecture and the urban landscape of Guangzhou framed the relations between the Western mercantile and missionary communities and the city's predominantly Chinese population. The book takes readers through three phases: the Thirteen Factories era from the eighteenth century to the 1850s; the Shamian enclave up to the early twentieth century; and the adoption of Western building techniques throughout the city as its architecture modernized in the early Republic. The discussion of architecture goes beyond stylistic trends to embrace the history of shared and disputed spaces, using a broadly chronological approach that combines social history with architectural and spatial analysis. With over a hundred carefully chosen images, this book illustrates how the foreign architectural footprints of the past form the modern Guangzhou. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 The Thirteen Factories: An Architecture of Sino-Western Collaboration and Confrontation 8

Situation 9

Origins and Materials 14

Facades: Changes and Continuities 15

Plans and Room Use 19

Everyday Life: Inhabitants and Rituals 30

The Pearl River: Transportation, Habitation, and Linkages 41

Connecting Fabric: The Square, the Street, and Regulating Relations 45

Violated Boundaries and the Factory as Fortress 52

Turf Disputes 53

Tensions Boil, Crowds Erupt 56

Defensible Space and Its Final Vanity 62

Chapter 2 Westerners Draw Their Boundaries: Insular Living and Its Exceptions 67

Modest Living and Work South of the River: Honam 67

A New Era but a Separate Peace: Dwelling on Shamian 74

Presenting a European Face: A Survey of Houses on Shamian, 1870-1900 85

Western Official and Commercial Buildings Outside Shamian 98

Domesticity and Division: Inside the Foreign House and Yard, 1865-1900 105

A Problem of Translation: Missionaries Confront (and Inhabit) the City 127

Neighboring Sparks, Local Flames: Violence and Space in the 1880s 140

The Later Nineteenth Century and the Two Worlds of Guangzhou 143

Chapter 3 Dining, Shopping, Bombarding, and Touring: Foreigners in the Traditional City 145

Guests and Customers: "Invited" Foreigners in the Early Nineteenth Century 146

Visiting a Buddhist Monastery 146

Flower Grounds 150

Invitation to a Chop-stick Dinner 152

The Impulse to Buy 160

The City Question: Entry and Mapping in the Third Quarter of the Nineteenth Century 164

Tourism at the Sunset of Imperial Guangzhou: Institutions, Ideologies, and Power 172

The Press of the Crowd 178

The "Regulation" Sites 180

Urban Fabric and Western Perceptions 187

Chapter 4 Xin Guangzhou: Architecture, Foreigners, and Modernity in the Early Twentieth Century 190

New Business, New Buildings, and Cross-Cultural Controversy in Twentieth- Century Shamian 190

Learning and Living Together: Foreign Philanthropic Institutions 204

Xin Guangzhou: Foreigners and the Modernization of Canton 213

Civic Visions: The Sights of Republican Guangzhou 220

Chapter 5 Conclusion 226.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-244) and index.

ISBN:

9789888208876

988820887X

OCLC:

961288990