China's contested capital : architecture, ritual, and response in Nanjing /

When the Chinese Nationalist Party nominally reunified the country in 1928, Chiang Kai-shek and other party leaders insisted that Nanjing was better suited than Beijing to serve as its capital. For the next decade, until the Japanese invasion in 1937, Nanjing was the "model capital" of Nat...

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Main Author: Musgrove, Charles D., 1970- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2013.
Series:Spatial habitus (Series)
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