New Narratives of Urban Space in Republican Chinese Cities : Emerging Social, Legal and Governance Orders.
New Narratives of Urban Space in Republican Chinese Cities offers nine empirical studies to examine the social, legal and governance dimensions of the great urban transformation in Republican China pertaining to the cultural realm of the urban space.
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| Language: | English |
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Leiden :
BRILL,
2013.
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| Series: | Brill's series on modern East Asia in a global historical perspective.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Chapter One Urban Space in Republican Chinese Cities as Seen Through Cultural Narratives: A Prologue ; Part One Social Order ; Chapter Two Changing Spaces and Civilized Weddings in Republican China ; Chapter Three City-Building, New Life and the 'Making of the Citizen' in 1930s Nanchang ; Chapter Four Wartime Refugee Relief in Chinese Cities and Women's Political Activism, 1937-1940 ; Part Two Law and Order ; Chapter Five Unorganized Crime: Forgers, Soldiers, and Shopkeepers in Beijing, 1927, 1928.
- Chapter Six The Ordering of Crime in Republican Beijing from the 1910s to the 1930s Chapter Seven Dangerous Cities: Judicial Authorities, Criminologists, and the Perception of Crime Zones in 1920s and 1930s China ; Part Three Governance Order ; Chapter Eight British Concessions and Chinese Cities, 1910s-1930s ; Chapter Nine Provincializing the City: Canton and the Reshaping of Guangdong Provincial Administration, 1912-1937 ; Chapter Ten Xi'an, 1900-1940: From Isolated Backwater to Resistance Center ; Index.
