Cities Of Jiangnan In Late Imperial China

Author : Linda Cooke Johnson
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1993-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438407982

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This book examines cities of the Jiangnan region of south-central China between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries, an area considered to be the model of a successfully developing regional economy. The six studies focus on the urban centers of Suzhou, Hangzhou, Yangzhou, and Shanghai. Emphasizing the regional focus, the authors explore the interconnections and sequential relationships between these major cities and analyze common themes such as the development of handicraft industry, transport and commerce, class structure, ethnic diversity and internal immigration, and the social and political pressures generated by developments in manufacturing, taxes, and government politics. The book provides a valuable resource on commercial development and internal economic and social development in pre-modern China, particularly on specific regional development and the historical role of traditional Chinese cities.

Author : Linda Cooke Johnson
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1993-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0791414248

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Cities of Jiangnan in Late Imperial China by Linda Cooke Johnson Pdf

This book examines cities of the Jiangnan region of south-central China between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries, an area considered to be the model of a successfully developing regional economy. The six studies focus on the urban centers of Suzhou, Hangzhou, Yangzhou, and Shanghai. Emphasizing the regional focus, the authors explore the interconnections and sequential relationships between these major cities and analyze common themes such as the development of handicraft industry, transport and commerce, class structure, ethnic diversity and internal immigration, and the social and political pressures generated by developments in manufacturing, taxes, and government politics. The book provides a valuable resource on commercial development and internal economic and social development in pre-modern China, particularly on specific regional development and the historical role of traditional Chinese cities.

Author : Hugh D. R. Baker
Publisher : Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press
Page : 854 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : China
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003231441

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The City in Late Imperial China by Hugh D. R. Baker Pdf

Author : George William Skinner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : OCLC:1184193921

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The City in Late Imperial China by George William Skinner Pdf

Author : Cynthia J. Brokaw,Kai-Wing Chow
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2005-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520231269

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Printing and Book Culture in Late Imperial China by Cynthia J. Brokaw,Kai-Wing Chow Pdf

"A very useful book on a topic of growing importance and interest. Brokaw's introduction is one of the most valuable and best-written prefaces to an edited volume that I have encountered in some time."—Kent Guy, author of The Emperor's Four Treasures

Author : Billy Kee Long So
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415508964

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The Economy of Lower Yangzi Delta in Late Imperial China by Billy Kee Long So Pdf

This book explores aspects of this vibrant market economy in late imperial China, and by presenting a reconstructed narrative of economic development in the early modern Jiangnan, provides new perspectives on established theories of Chinese economic development. Further, by examining economic values alongside social structures, this book produces a historically comprehensive account of the contemporary Chinese economy which engenders a deeper and broader understanding of China's current economic success.

Author : Toby Lincoln
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107196421

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An Urban History of China by Toby Lincoln Pdf

The first history of Chinese cities from their early origins to becoming the largest urban society in the world.

Author : Toby Lincoln
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824854195

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Urbanizing China in War and Peace by Toby Lincoln Pdf

Urbanizing China in War and Peace rewrites the history of rural-urban relations in the first half of the twentieth century by arguing that urbanization is a total societal transformation and as important a factor as revolution, nationalism, or modernity in the history of modern China. Linking the global and the local in space and time, China's urbanization was not only driven by industrial capitalism and the expansion of the state, but also shaped how these forces influenced daily life in the city and the countryside. Although the conflict that beset China after the Japanese invasion in 1937 affected the development of cities, towns, and villages, it did not derail previous changes. To truly understand how China has emerged as the world's largest urban society, we must consider such continuities across the first half of the twentieth century—during periods of war as well as peace. The book focuses on Wuxi, a city that lies a hundred miles to the west of Shanghai. In the early twentieth century local industrialists were responsible for it quickly becoming the largest industrial city in China outside treaty ports. They built factories, roads, and other infrastructure outside the old city walls and in surrounding towns and villages. Chapters examine the county's transformation as recorded in guidebooks and travel magazines of the time and the role of the state in the early 1920s and into the Nanjing Decade, when new administrative laws led to the continued expansion of the city under both municipal and county officials. They explore the revival of the silk industry during the Japanese occupation and the industry's role in driving urbanization, as well as efforts by Chinese leaders to carry out prewar development plans despite lockdowns and qingxiang (clean the countryside) campaigns. In the midst of the barbed wire and watch towers, plans to shape the built environment in Wuxi County and the region as a whole persisted and were carried out. Ambitious and well researched, Urbanizing China in War and Peace will appeal to scholars and students of Chinese urban history, the Anti-Japanese War of Resistance, and the Republican period. Its engagement with issues of urbanization in general will interest urban historians of other times and places.

Author : Peter Clark
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191637698

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The Oxford Handbook of Cities in World History by Peter Clark Pdf

In 2008 for the first time the majority of the planet's inhabitants lived in cities and towns. Becoming globally urban has been one of mankind's greatest collective achievements over time, and raises many questions. How did global city systems evolve and interact in the past? How have historic urban patterns impacted on those of the contemporary world? And what were the key drivers in the roller-coaster of urban change over the millennia - market forces such as trade and industry, rulers and governments, competition and collaboration between cities, or the urban environment and demographic forces? This pioneering comparative work by leading scholars drawn from a range of disciplines offers the first detailed comparative study of urban development from ancient times to the present day. The Oxford Handbook of Cities in World History explores not only the main trends in the growth of cities and towns across the world - in Asia and the Middle East, Europe, Africa, and the Americas - and the different types of cities from great metropolitan centres to suburbs, colonial cities, and market towns, but also many of the essential themes in the making and remaking of the urban world: the role of power, economic development, migration, social inequality, environmental challenge and the urban response, religion and representation, cinema, and urban creativity. Split into three parts covering Ancient cities, the medieval and early-modern period, and the modern and contemporary era, it begins with an introduction by the editor identifying the importance and challenges of research on cities in world history, as well as the crucial outlines of urban development since the earliest cities in ancient Mesopotamia to the present.

Author : Thomas Ertman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107133877

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Max Weber's Economic Ethic of the World Religions by Thomas Ertman Pdf

This book identifies what is living and what is dead in Max Weber's analyses of China, India and Ancient Israel.

Author : Toby Lincoln,Xu Tao
Publisher : Springer
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137554710

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The Habitable City in China by Toby Lincoln,Xu Tao Pdf

This book offers a new perspective on Chinese urban history by exploring cities as habitable spaces. China, the world’s most populous nation, is now its newest urban society, and the pace of this unprecedented historical transformation has increased in recent decades. The contributors to this book conceptualise cities as first providing the necessities of life, and then becoming places in which the quality of life can be improved. They focus on how cities have been made secure during times of instability, how their inhabitants have consumed everything from the simplest of foods to the most expensive luxuries, and how they have been planned as ideal spaces. Drawing examples from across the country, this book offers comparisons between different cities, highlights continuities across time and space—and in doing so may provide solutions to some of the problems that continue to affect Chinese cities today.

Author : Andrew M. Marton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136359842

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China's Spatial Economic Development by Andrew M. Marton Pdf

The spatial patterns of China's rapid economic transformation fundamentally challenge conventional geographies of urban and regional development. This book provides a theoretically informed case study of the local character of regional change in China's lower Yangzi Delta, as well as a new analytical framework for understanding China's unique form of economic modernization.

Author : Yinong Xu
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0824820762

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The Chinese City in Space and Time by Yinong Xu Pdf

Drawing on a wealth of primary materials detailing the city's history, customs, and urban construction as well as on recent work in Chinese history, culture, and religion, Yinong Xu examines characteristics of building and transformation in pre-modern Suzhou, characteristics that, while particular to the city's own historical development, reflect or were determined by factors representative of China's urban history in general.".

Author : Kang-i Sun Chang,Stephen Owen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 830 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Chinese literature
ISBN : 0521855594

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The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature: From 1375 by Kang-i Sun Chang,Stephen Owen Pdf

Stephen Owen is James Bryant Conant Professor of Chinese at Harvard University. --Book Jacket.

Author : R. Cavallo,S. Komossa,N. Marzot
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 1072 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781614993667

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New Urban Configurations by R. Cavallo,S. Komossa,N. Marzot Pdf

Urban areas have been caught up in a turbulent process of transformation over the past 50 years and changes have been rapid, with issues such as mobility, nature, water management, energy use and public space featuring prominently._x000D_ In each Olympic year since 1988, the Faculty of Architecture at Delft University of Technology has held an international conference focusing on the connection between research and design, exploring the field of tension between science, technology and art._x000D_ This book presents the proceedings of the latest in this series of conferences: New Urban Configurations, held in Delft, the Netherlands, in October 2012 in collaboration with the European Association for Architectural Education (EAAE) and the International Seminar on Urban Form (ISUF). This edition of the conference discussed the role and critical potential of the architectural project in the transformation process of cities and territories that leads to new urban configurations._x000D_ The publication contains all 140 accepted papers and a selection of the keynote lectures presented at the conference. The papers have been grouped into five main themes: innovation in building typology; infrastructure and the city; complex urban projects; green spaces, and delta urbanism. Four of these major topics are further divided into several subtopics._x000D_ This book will be of interest to everyone involved in designing, building, thinking about as well as managing the urban landscape and territory.