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The urban design of concession : tradition and transformation in the Chinese treaty ports / Peter Cookson Smith.
Fine Arts Library HT384.C6 S65 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Peter Cookson.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City planning--China--History--19th century.
- City planning.
- Cities and towns--China--Growth--History--19th century.
- Cities and towns.
- Urbanization--China--History.
- Urbanization.
- Urban policy--China--History.
- Urban policy.
- Cities and towns--China--Growth--History.
- City planning--China--History.
- Growth.
- History.
- China.
- Cities and towns--Growth.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 419 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Hong Kong] : MCCM Creations, 2011.
- Contents:
- Confucianism, urbanization and emerging maritime connections
- Opium, aggression and unequal treaties
- Treaty port growth, exploitation and political change
- Political transformation in the treaty ports
- Nationalisation and the new modernism
- Post-concession port cities and the socialist planned economy
- Modernisations : a resurgence of the port cities.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9789881858474
- 988185847X
- OCLC:
- 727908254
- Publisher Number:
- 99980922575
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