Dwelling in the World
Dwelling in the World

Author: Elizabeth LaCouture

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2021-08-10

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 0231543794

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By the early twentieth century, Chinese residents of the northern treaty-port city of Tianjin were dwelling in the world. Divided by nine foreign concessions, Tianjin was one of the world’s most colonized and cosmopolitan cities. Residents could circle the globe in an afternoon, strolling from a Chinese courtyard house through a Japanese garden past a French Beaux-Arts bank to dine at a German café and fall asleep in a British garden city-style semi-attached brick house. Dwelling in the World considers family, house, and home in Tianjin to explore how tempos and structures of everyday life changed with the fall of the Qing Empire and the rise of a colonized city. Elizabeth LaCouture argues that the intimate ideas and practices of the modern home were more important in shaping the gender and status identities of Tianjin’s urban elites than the new public ideology of the nation. Placing the Chinese home in a global context, she challenges Euro-American historical notions that the private sphere emerged from industrialization. She argues that concepts of individual property rights that emerged during the Republican era became foundational to state-society relations in early Communist housing reforms and in today’s middle-class real estate boom. Drawing on diverse sources from municipal archives, women’s magazines, and architectural field work to social surveys and colonial records, Dwelling in the World recasts Chinese social and cultural history, offering new perspectives on gender and class, colonialism and empire, visual and material culture, and technology and everyday life.

The Workers of Tianjin, 1900-1949
The Workers of Tianjin, 1900-1949

Author: Gail Hershatter

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 1993-08-01

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780804722162

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This is the story of the workers of Tianjin (Tientsin) and how, in the first half of the 20th century, they helped shape Tianjin's identity as the major industrial centre of North China. This text should be of interest to students of the period covered, and also to those students of Communist China who wish to understand the antecedents of China's current urban society and trace the roots of powerful continuities. The book offers a wealth of detail on material life, forms of entertainment, local festivals and individual rites of passage and makes use of studies of the local economy carried out by contemporaries and in the People's Republic. The Workers of Tianjin is a contribution to both Chinese labour history and urban history.

The Salt Merchants of Tianjin
The Salt Merchants of Tianjin

Author: Man Bun Kwan

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 0824865006

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For nearly four hundred years the Changlu salt merchants played a leading role in the urbanization, commercial development, and social change of the city of Tianjin. As early as the fifteenth century, this small yet important group of citizens negotiated with the state as revenue-farmers, developing and defending their businesses and customs while evolving their own urban culture. In this the first detailed study in English of the mercantile activities and social role of Tianjin's salt merchants, Kwan Man Bun reveals how they helped stabilize the city and assumed many civic responsibilities, providing relief, charities, and other services to their fellow citizenry. Although these developments resemble the emergence of an idealized "public sphere" as in Europe, Kwan makes clear that Tianjin's social changes were not grounded on "rational discourse" but rather drew their strength and continuity from merchant networks based on exclusivity, wealth, education, and kinship.

The Workers of Tianjin, 1900-1949
The Workers of Tianjin, 1900-1949

Author: Gail Hershatter

Publisher:

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 9780804713184

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This is the story of the workers of Tianjin (Tientsin) and how, in the first half of the twentieth century, they helped shape Tianjin's identity as the major industrial center of North China. Of interest not merely to students of the period covered but to those students of Communist China who wish to understand the antecedents of China's current urban society and trace the roots of powerful continuities. It offers a wealth of detail on material life, forms of entertainment, local festivals, and individual rites of passage and makes effective use of studies of the local economy done by contemporaries and in the People's Republic. The Workers of Tianjin is a major contribution to both Chinese labor history and urban history.

Vacation Goose Travel Guide Tianjin China
Vacation Goose Travel Guide Tianjin China

Author: Francis Morgan

Publisher: Soffer Publishing

Published: 2017-04-29

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13:

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Vacation Goose Travel Guide Tianjin China is an easy to use small pocket book filled with all you need for your stay in the big city. Top 50 city attractions, top 8 nightlife adventures, top 50 city restaurants, top 50 shopping centers, top 50 hotels, and more than a dozen monthly weather statistics. This travel guide is up to date with the latest developments of the city as of 2017. We hope you let this pocket book be part of yet another fun Tianjin adventure :)

The Narrative Arts of Tianjin: Between Music and Language
The Narrative Arts of Tianjin: Between Music and Language

Author: Francesca R. Sborgi Lawson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-12-05

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 1351885316

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In studying one of the world's oldest and most enduring musical cultures, academics have consistently missed one of the richest forms of Chinese cultural expression: performed narratives. Francesca R. Sborgi Lawson explores the relationships between language and music in the performance of four narrative genres in the city of Tianjin, China, based upon original field research conducted in the People's Republic of China in the mid 1980s and in 1991. The author emphasizes the unique nature of oral performances in China: these genres are both musical and literary and yet are considered to be neither music nor literature. Lawson employs extensive examples of the complex interaction of music and language in each genre, all the while relating those analyses to broader cultural issues and to patterns of social relationships. The narrative arts known as shuochang (speaking-singing) are depicted as genres that constitute a unique communicative discourse”the communication of stories in song. The genres subsumed under the native conception of shuochang include Tianjin Popular Tunes, Beijing Drumsong, Clappertales and Comic Routines. The maximum utilization of shuo (speaking) and chang (singing) in all their varying manifestations constitutes the vitality of the traditional narrative arts in the city of Tianjin”the center for these arts in North China. The variety of narrative forms provides entertainment for audiences representing all social strata of Chinese society. The author argues that Chinese narrative traditions represent a foundation from which certain Chinese literary and operatic traditions have borrowed, such as how the novels from the Ming-Qing period draw on the performed narrative arts both in style and in content. Hence, an understanding of performed narratives is not only useful to scholars in Chinese literature and music, but also to scholars interested in broadening their understanding of China generally.

Managing Famine, Flood and Earthquake in China
Managing Famine, Flood and Earthquake in China

Author: Lauri Paltemaa

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-10-05

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 1317567471

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China suffers frequently from many types of natural disasters, which have affected the lives of many millions of Chinese. The steps which the Chinese state has taken to prevent disasters, mitigate their consequences, and reconstruct in the aftermath of disasters are therefore key issues. This book examines the single metropolis of Tianjin in northern China, a city which has suffered particularly badly from natural disasters – the great famine of 1958-61, the great flood of 1963 and the great earthquake of 1976. It discusses how the city managed these disasters, what policies and measures were taken to prevent and mitigate disasters, and to promote reconstruction afterwards. It also explores who suffered from and who benefited from the disasters. Overall, the book shows how disaster management was erratic, sometimes managed highly efficiently and in other cases disappointingly delayed and inept. It concludes that, although the Maoist state possessed formidable resources, disaster management was always constrained by other political and economic considerations, and was never an automatic priority.

Making Urban Revolution in China: The CCP-GMD Struggle for Beiping-Tianjin, 1945-49
Making Urban Revolution in China: The CCP-GMD Struggle for Beiping-Tianjin, 1945-49

Author: Joseph K.S. Yick

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-05-20

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1317465679

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The end of the Sino-Japanese War in 1945 brought not peace but renewed confrontation between Mao Zedong's Chinese Communist Party and Chiang Kaishek's Guomindang. The ensuing Civil War, at the threshold of the Cold War, held enormous significance for international strategic alliances, and in particular the interests of the United States in East Asia, and has been the subject of intense research and debate ever since. Joseph Yick's Making Urban Revolution in China: The CCP-GMD Struggle for Beiping-Tianjin, 1945-1949, based partly on the rich new sources available in the PRC since 1978, rethinks the traditional interpretations of the Chinese Communist Party's victory in 1949 and makes a major contribution to the historiography of this period.