Urbanization In Early And Medieval China

Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295806105

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Urbanization in Early and Medieval China by Anonim Pdf

The heart of Urbanization in Early and Medieval China consists of translations of three gazetteers written during the Han (206 BCE–220 CE), Tang (618–907), and Northern Song (960–1126) dynasties describing the city of Suzhou. The texts allow the reader to trace the dramatic changes that occurred as the city experienced enormous political and social upheavals over nine centuries. Each translation is accompanied by extensive annotation and a detailed discussion of the historical background of the text, authorship, and publication history. The book also traces the development of the gazetteer genre, the history of urban planning in China, and what we know about the early development of Suzhou from other texts and archaeological research. Urbanization in Early and Medieval China will be useful not only to scholars of Chinese history, but to scholars studying architecture and urban planning as well.

Author : Chye Kiang Heng
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9971692236

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Cities of Aristocrats and Bureaucrats by Chye Kiang Heng Pdf

The emergence of the open city during the 11th century is one of the most dramatic and important changes in Chinese urban history. While the Sui and the early Tang city was controlled and highly disciplined with restricted commercial activity, the late Northern Song city filled with pluralistic streets active round the clock became a new urban paradigm. These cities reflect the respective societies that gave rise to them - one rooted in a strong aristocratic power with a highly hierarchical social structure, and the other shaped by a pluralistic, mercantile society managed by pragmatic professional bureaucrats. This book provides an in-depth account of the process of transformation from the curfewed city of the Tang period to the open city of the Song. It analyses the multidimensional factors that gradually led to the development of an urban culture which in turn helped cement the trend towards the open city with its irregular layout and distinct urban tissue and silhouette.

Author : Chonglan Fu,Wenming Cao
Publisher : Springer
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789811382116

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An Urban History of China by Chonglan Fu,Wenming Cao Pdf

This book considers urban development in China, highlighting links between China’s history and civilization and the rapid evolution of its urban forms. It explores the early days of urban dwelling in China, progressing to an analysis of residential environments in the industrial age. It also examines China’s modern and postmodern architecture, considered as derivative or lacking spiritual meaning or personality, and showcases how China's traditional culture underpins the emergence of China’s modern cities. Focusing on the notion of “courtyard spirit” in China, it offers a study of the urban public squares central to Chinese society, and examines the disruption of the traditional Square model and the rise and growth of new architectural models.

Author : Jing Xie
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789811204838

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Chinese Urbanism: Urban Form And Life In The Tang-song Dynasties by Jing Xie Pdf

Since the 1990s, the urban landscape of China has witnessed revolutionary changes that are unrivalled in any country of the world throughout history. Rapid urbanization, facilitated by the modern planning mechanism for growth, provides a feast for property developers. Yet, associated urban problems such as housing affordability, traffic congestion, energy consumption, and environmental deterioration are aggravated. This book takes a historic approach to investigate the planning philosophy, urban form and life of the past. Through a detailed study of urban development from early times through the imperial period with a focus on the Tang-Song dynasties, this book attempts to articulate the good qualities of urban landscapes from the past that still have instructive value for modern practices. The focus on the Tang-Song period is not only because China was the most advanced civilization of its time, but also because it underwent a similar process of 'urbanization', evident by tremendous economic growth, a dramatic rise of urban population, and an extended building boom. Through evaluating the streets, city layout, public places, urban communities, houses and gardens, and using interdisciplinary research in urban planning, urban design, architecture, history, and cultural studies, this book asserts that the past is quintessentially important. The past not only truthfully records the course of social and cultural formation of urban community and its associated physical fabric, but also regulates the directions we may take in the future.

Author : Kam Wing Chan
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009762357

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Cities with Invisible Walls by Kam Wing Chan Pdf

Most of the ancient walls surrounding China's cities have long since disintegrated, but invisible walls - legal restrictions separating the urban and rural populations - continue to contain urbanization. Kam Wing Chan examines how and why these bureaucratic 'walls' were built during the early days of socialism and why they remain during the current reform period. Dr Chan weaves together new empirical data and theory in this ground-breaking analysis of China's urbanization policies under socialism. He discredits the conventional wisdom that a low urban growth rate was the by-product of Mao's 'rural-biased' policies and points instead to long-term government efforts to promote industrialization while containing urban costs. In the post-Mao era city 'walls' have only been strengthened, as the government limits the costs of urbanization by refusing state-subsidized benefits to many of the cities' new migrants. Dr Chan critiques this policy and looks ahead to predict the impact of economic growth on urban demographics in the next century.

Author : Zheng Yongnian,Zhao Litao,Sarah Y. Tong
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317373483

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China's Great Urbanization by Zheng Yongnian,Zhao Litao,Sarah Y. Tong Pdf

China’s extraordinary economic boom since the late 1970s has been accompanied by massive urbanization, with the proportion of the population living in cities rising from 18% in 1978 to 54% in 2014. Currently the Chinese government has amongst its objectives the target to increase this to 60% by 2020, and also to improve the quality of China’s cities. This book examines a wide range of issues connected to China’s urbanization. It considers the many problems which have come with rapid urbanization, including urban housing problems, difficulties affecting rural migrants in urban areas, and a lack of social protection. It examines areas of current reform, including land reform, shanty town renewal and moves to address environmental problems. It explores governance issues, and throughout assesses how urbanization in China is likely to develop in future.

Author : Andrew Chittick
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438428994

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Patronage and Community in Medieval China by Andrew Chittick Pdf

This first book-length treatment of a provincial military society in China's early medieval period offers a vivid portrait of this milieu and invites readers to reevaluate their understanding of a critical period in Chinese history. Drawing on poetry, local history, archaeology, and Buddhist materials, as well as more traditional historical sources, Andrew Chittick explores the culture and interrelationships of the leading figures of the Xiangyang region (in the north of modern Hubei province) in the centuries leading up to the Sui unification. Using the model of patron-client relations to characterize the interactions between local men and representatives of the southern court at Jiankang, the book emphasizes the way in which these interactions were shaped by personal ties and cultural and status differences. The result is a compelling explanation for the shifting, unstable, and violent nature of the political and military system of the southern dynasties. Offering a wider perspective which considers the social world beyond the capital elite, the book challenges earlier conceptions of medieval society as "aristocratic" and rooted in family lineage and officeholding. Andrew Chittick is E. Leslie Peter Associate Professor of East Asian Humanities at Eckerd College.

Author : Chonglan Fu,Wenming Cao
Publisher : Springer
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789811382079

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Introduction to the Urban History of China by Chonglan Fu,Wenming Cao Pdf

This book explores China’s urban development, examining the history and culture of Chinese cities and providing a cultural background to the rapid urban development of contemporary China. It offers a new perspective on Chinese urban history, showcasing the traditional culture which underpins the emergence of the modern city and highlighting how traditional Chinese philosophical thought is reflected in the culture of urban planning and architecture in China, notably examining such issues as ‘the integration of man and nature’, yin and yang, bagua, and the Wu Xing.

Author : Fengxuan Xue,Victor F. S. Sit
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789814293730

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Chinese City and Urbanism by Fengxuan Xue,Victor F. S. Sit Pdf

Ch. 1. Introducing the Chinese case : its origin and stages of development -- ch. 2. From village to proto-urban settlements of late Yangshao period -- ch. 3. Longshan city-states -- ch. 4. Urbanism in the early bronze age state of the Xia -- ch. 5. Shang urbanism at the climax of bronze metallurgy -- ch. 6. From feudalism to commercial-industrial cities : Zhou dynasty and the Warring States -- ch. 7. The administrative city of Qin and Han -- ch. 8. Tang : golden age of the Confucian model -- ch. 9. Song renaissance and the new urbanity -- ch. 10. Ming dynasty : urban reconstruction and resurgence after the Yuan dynasty -- ch. 11. Qing urbanization : from neo-Confucian orthodoxy to semi-colonialism -- ch. 12. People's republic : the unsettled socialist approach -- ch. 13. Message from Chinese urbanism

Author : Liangyong Wu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Architecture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105008707874

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A Brief History of Ancient Chinese City Planning by Liangyong Wu Pdf

Author : Wendy Swartz,Robert Ford Campany,Yang Lu,Jessey Choo
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 745 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231531009

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Early Medieval China by Wendy Swartz,Robert Ford Campany,Yang Lu,Jessey Choo Pdf

This innovative sourcebook builds a dynamic understanding of China's early medieval period (220–589) through an original selection and arrangement of literary, historical, religious, and critical texts. A tumultuous and formative era, these centuries saw the longest stretch of political fragmentation in China's imperial history, resulting in new ethnic configurations, the rise of powerful clans, and a pervasive divide between north and south. Deploying thematic categories, the editors sketch the period in a novel way for students and, by featuring many texts translated into English for the first time, recast the era for specialists. Thematic topics include regional definitions and tensions, governing mechanisms and social reality, ideas of self and other, relations with the unseen world, everyday life, and cultural concepts. Within each section, the editors and translators introduce the selected texts and provide critical commentary on their historical significance, along with suggestions for further reading and research.

Author : Andrew Eisenberg
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047432302

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Kingship in Early Medieval China by Andrew Eisenberg Pdf

The institution of the Retired Emperor forms the innovative angle from which this study analyzes Classical Chinese political history (4th to 7th centuries A.D.) and lays bare broader patterns of political and social action of Classical Chinese monarchy. The author lays a basis for a new framework to think about kingship and succession in East Asia.

Author : D. Jonathan Felt
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781684176441

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Structures of the Earth by D. Jonathan Felt Pdf

The traditional Chinese notion of itself as the “middle kingdom”—literally the cultural and political center of the world—remains vital to its own self-perceptions and became foundational to Western understandings of China. This worldview was primarily constructed during the earliest imperial unification of China during the Qin and Han dynasties (221 BCE–220 CE). But the fragmentation of empire and subsequent “Age of Disunion” (220–589 CE) that followed undermined imperial orthodoxies of unity, centrality, and universality. In response, geographical writing proliferated, exploring greater spatial complexities and alternative worldviews. This book is the first study of the emergent genre of geographical writing and the metageographies that structured its spatial thought during that period. Early medieval geographies highlighted spatial units and structures that the Qin–Han empire had intentionally sought to obscure—including those of regional, natural, and foreign spaces. Instead, these postimperial metageographies reveal a polycentric China in a polycentric world. Sui–Tang (581–906 CE) officials reasserted the imperial model as spatial orthodoxy. But since that time these alternative frameworks have persisted in geographical thought, continuing to illuminate spatial complexities that have been incompatible with the imperial and nationalist ideal of a monolithic China at the center of the world.

Author : Victor Cunrui Xiong
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 1007 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442276161

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Historical Dictionary of Medieval China by Victor Cunrui Xiong Pdf

The crucial period of Chinese history, 168-979, falls naturally into contrasting phases. The first phase, also known as that of 'early medieval China,' is an age of political decentralization. Following the breakup of the Han empire, China was plunged into civil war and fragmentation and stayed divided for nearly four centuries. The second phase started in 589, during the Sui dynasty, when China was once again brought under a single government. Under the Sui, the bureaucracy was revitalized, the military strengthened, and the taxation system reformed. The fall of the Sui in 618 gave way to the even stronger Tang dynasty, which represents an apogee of traditional Chinese civilization. Inheriting all the great institutions developed under the Sui, the Tang made great achievements in poetry, painting, music, and architecture. The An Lushan rebellion, which also took place during Tang rule, brought about far-reaching changes in the socioeconomic, political, and military arenas. What transpired in the second half of the Tang and the ensuing Five Dynasties provided the foundation for the next age of late imperial China. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Medieval China contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1000 cross-referenced entries on historical figure. It expands on existing thematic entries, and adds a number of new ones with substantial content, including those on nobility, art, architecture, archaeology, economy, agriculture, money, population, cities, literature, historiography, military, religion, Persia, India, Japan, Korea, Arabs, and Byzantium, among others. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about medieval China.

Author : Albert E. Dien
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015019849044

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State and Society in Early Medieval China by Albert E. Dien Pdf