Chinese city and urbanism : evolution and development / Victor F.S. Sit.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Xue, Fengxuan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urbanization--China--History.

Urbanization.

Cities and towns--Growth--China--History.

Cities and towns.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (356 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The purpose of this volume is to treat the progress of history, civilization and urban development of China together in order to demonstrate the unique qualities of Chinese civilization. The author uses historical dynasties as the vertical dimension, starting from the pre-urban origin of round-moat village settlements of the Yangzhou Period, until the most recent transitional city under the present socialist market system. There are a total of 13 chapters, covering a time-span of roughly 6,000 years. The book also discusses the theoretical context of the uniqueness of Chinese urban evolution a

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; Preface; About the Author; List of Maps and Figures; List of Tables; Chapter 1: Introducing the Chinese Case: Its Origin and Stages of Development; Chapter 2: From Village to Proto-Urban Settlements of Late Yangshao Period; Chapter 3: Longshan City-States; Chapter 4: Urbanism in the Early Bronze Age State of the Xia; Chapter 5: Shang Urbanism at the Climax of Bronze Metallurgy; Chapter 6: From Feudalism to Commercial-Industrial Cities: Zhou Dynasty and the Warring States; Chapter 7: The Administrative City of Qin and Han

Chapter 8: Tang: Golden Age of the Confucian ModelChapter 9: Song Renaissance and the New Urbanity; Chapter 10: Ming Dynasty: Urban Reconstruction and Resurgence after the Yuan Dynasty; Chapter 11: Qing Urbanization: From Neo-Confucian Orthodoxy to Semi-Colonialism; Chapter 12: People's Republic: The Unsettled Socialist Approach; Chapter 13: Message from Chinese Urbanism; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612762086

9781282762084

1282762087

9789814293730

9814293733

OCLC:

671655790