China in Five Cities
Author: Kerry Brown
Publisher:
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781838900113
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Flowers on an Iron Tree
Author: Ross Terrill
Publisher:
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 458
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDaily Life in Ancient China
Author: Muzhou Pu
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-06-21
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 1107021170
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book employs textual and archaeological material to reconstruct the various features of daily life in ancient China.
Ghost Cities of China
Author: Wade Shepard
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2015-04-09
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 1783602201
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFeaturing everything from sports stadiums to shopping malls, hundreds of new cities in China stand empty, with hundreds more set to be built by 2030. Between now and then, the country's urban population will leap to over one billion, as the central government kicks its urbanization initiative into overdrive. In the process, traditional social structures are being torn apart, and a rootless, semi-displaced, consumption orientated culture rapidly taking their place. Ghost Cities of China is an enthralling dialogue driven, on-location search for an understanding of China's new cities and the reasons why many currently stand empty.
Chinese Cities
Author: Fengxuan Xue
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten by scholars from the People's Republic of China, Chinese Cities presents a comprehensive review of the evolution, present land-use patterns, economic base, and urban problems and planning of five of the largest Chinese cities: Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, Xi'an and Guangzhou, as well as the Taiwanese city of Taibei and the editor's own Hong Kong.
The Magic Square
Author: Alfred Schinz
Publisher: Edition Axel Menges
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 3930698021
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents the development of Chinese urbanism. Equipped with source material and maps, this book applies metrological methods. Including about 300 drawings, it gives an overall view of the urban life and culture that existed in the traditional society of late Imperial China.
Cities and Stability
Author: Jeremy L. Wallace
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 0199378983
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChina's management of urbanization is an under-appreciated factor in the regime's longevity. The Chinese Communist Party fears "Latin Americanization" -- the emergence of highly unequal megacities with their attendant slums and social unrest. Such cities threaten the survival of nondemocratic regimes. To combat the threat, many regimes, including China's, favor cities in policymaking. Cities and Stability shows this "urban bias" to be a Faustian Bargain: cities may be stabilized for a time, but the massive in-migration from the countryside that results can generate the conditions for political upheaval. Through its hukou system of internal migration restrictions, China has avoided this dilemma, simultaneously aiding urbanites and keeping farmers in the countryside. The system helped prevent social upheaval even during the Great Recession, when tens of millions of laid-off migrant workers dispersed from coastal cities. Jeremy Wallace's powerful account forces us to rethink the relationship between cities and political stability throughout the developing world.
Cities of Aristocrats and Bureaucrats
Author: Chye Kiang Heng
Publisher: NUS Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9789971692230
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
City of Heavenly Tranquility
Author: Jasper Becker
Publisher: eBook Partnership
Published: 2015-08-10
Total Pages: 460
ISBN-13: 1783017856
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA startling, eye-opening account of a fascinating and decisive moment in Chinese history, packed with evocative stories. Jasper Becker tells the story of why and how China's leaders set about to destroy and rebuild one of the world's greatest cities and how many of the residents tried to stop it and protect their great architectural legacy.
Remaking the Chinese City
Author: Joseph Esherick
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnnotation Collects in one place some of the most interesting and exciting new work on Chinese urban history.
