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New Narratives of Urban Space in Republican Chinese Cities: Emerging Social, Legal and Governance Orders: 2
Author(s): Billy K.L. So (Editor), Madeleine Zelin
- Publisher: Brill
- Publication Date: 21 Mar. 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 296 pages
- ISBN-10: 9789004249905
- ISBN-13: 9004249907
Book Description
The nine empirical studies in New Narratives of Urban Space in Republican Chinese Cities, organized under the general framework of urban space, examine three critical dimensions of the great urban transformation in Republican China―social, legal and governance orders. Together these narratives suggest a new perception of this historical urbanism.
While modern economic development was a major drive for Chinese urban transformation, this volume highlights the dimension of the multilayered forces that shape urban space by looking into that less quantifiable, but equally important cultural realm and by exposing the ways in which these forces created new urban narratives, which became themselves shapers of urban space and of our perception of the Republican urbanity.
While modern economic development was a major drive for Chinese urban transformation, this volume highlights the dimension of the multilayered forces that shape urban space by looking into that less quantifiable, but equally important cultural realm and by exposing the ways in which these forces created new urban narratives, which became themselves shapers of urban space and of our perception of the Republican urbanity.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“The chapters reveal trends that complicate the quest to locate Habermasian public spaces in the volatile urban formations of a politically fragmented and conflict-ridden nation.”
Brian Tsui, The Australian National University, New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies 15.2 (December 2013)
Brian Tsui, The Australian National University, New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies 15.2 (December 2013)
About the Author
Billy K. L. So (PhD, Australian National University, 1983) is Chair Professor of Humanities at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He published extensively on Chinese legal and business history including Prosperity, Region, and Institutions in Maritime China (Harvard, 2000).
Madeleine Zelin (PhD, University of California at Berkeley, 1979) is Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies at Columbia University. She has published extensively on Chinese economic and legal history, including
The Merchants of Zigong, Industrial Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China (Columbia, 2005).
