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Republican Beijing : the city and its histories / Madeleine Yue Dong ; with a foreword by Thomas Bender.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dong, Madeleine Yue, 1964-
- Series:
- Asia--local studies/global themes ; 8.
- Asia--local studies/global themes ; 8
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Beijing (China)--History.
- Beijing (China).
- China--History--Republic, 1912-1949.
- China.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (406 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Old Beijing has become a subject of growing fascination in contemporary China since the 1980's. 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. Madeleine Yue Dong offers the first comprehensive history of Republican Beijing, examining how the capital acquired its identity as a consummately "traditional" Chinese city. For residents of Beijing, the heart of the city lay in the labor-intensive activities of "recycling," a primary mode of material and cultural production and circulation that came to characterize Republican Beijing. An omnipresent process of recycling and re-use unified Beijing's fragmented and stratified markets into one circulation system. These material practices evoked an air of nostalgia that permeated daily life. Paradoxically, the "old Beijing" toward which this nostalgia was directed was not the imperial capital of the past, but the living Republican city. Such nostalgia toward the present, the author argues, was not an empty sentiment, but an essential characteristic of Chinese modernity.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction
- PART I. The City of Planners
- PART II. The City of Experience
- PART III. The Lettered City
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-363) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612356575
- 9780585456321
- 9780520927636
- 052092763X
- 9781282356573
- 1282356577
- 9781597348621
- 1597348627
- OCLC:
- 475928233
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