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Civilizing Chengdu : Chinese Urban Reform, 1895-1937 / Kristin Stapleton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stapleton, Kristin, author.
- Series:
- Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 186.
- Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 186
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City planning--China--Chengdu.
- City planning.
- Urbanization--China--Chengdu.
- Urbanization.
- China--History--20th century.
- China.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2000.
- Other Title:
- Chinese Urban Reform, 1895-1937
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Harvard University Asia Center, 2000.
- Summary:
- This work examines the history of urban planning and administration during modern China's first age of city-centered politics, focusing on the New Policies of the late Qing and the city administration movement of the 1920s. Between 1895 and 1937, the management of cities emerged as one of the chief challenges for the Chinese state. Through a detailed case study, based on newly available archival sources, of the process of urban reform in Chengdu, a key provincial capital in the interior, Kristin Stapleton shows how urban reformers permanently changed urban administration, the urban landscape, and urban life by promoting a new type of orderly and productive community in population centers despite the many upheavals of the late Qing and Republican eras.
- Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction
- Late Imperial Chengdu, Provincial City
- Nation Building and the City, 1895-1911
- The Key to Urban Reform: The New Police
- The Winds of Progress: The Late Qing Urban Reform Agenda
- Self-government and Revolution
- After the Revolution: Soldiers, Sages, and Gowned Brothers
- The City Administration Movement of the 1920S
- Legacy of the New Policies: Continuity and Change in Chengdu in Comparative Perspective
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Character List
- Index
- Harvard East Asian Monographs.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [263]-326) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781684173365
- 1684173361
- OCLC:
- 647204504
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9781684173365 DOI
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