Negotiating Urban Space

Informationen zum Autor Si-yen Fei is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. Klappentext Urbanization was central to development in late imperial China. Yet its impact is heatedly debated. This book argues that this conceptual impasse derives from the fact that the seemingly continuous urban expansion was in fact punctuated by a wide variety of 'dynastic urbanisms'. Zusammenfassung Urbanization was central to development in late imperial China. Yet scholars agree it triggered neither Weberian urban autonomy nor Habermasian civil society. Using Nanjing as a central case, the author shows that, prompted by this contradiction, the actions and creations of urban residents transformed the city on multiple levels. Inhaltsverzeichnis Figures! Maps! and Table Introduction: A New Approach to Chinese Urbanism 1. "We Must Be Taxed" 2. To Wall or Not to Wall 3. Imaging Nanjing: A Genealogy 4. Nanjing Through Contemporary Mouths and Ears Conclusion: Toward a New Perspective on Late Imperial Urbanization Appendix: Gu Qiyuan's Fengsu Treatise Notes Works Cited Index

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Si-yen Fei is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Urbanization was central to development in late imperial China. Yet its impact is heatedly debated. This book argues that this conceptual impasse derives from the fact that the seemingly continuous urban expansion was in fact punctuated by a wide variety of 'dynastic urbanisms'.

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Urbanization was central to development in late imperial China. Yet scholars agree it triggered neither Weberian urban autonomy nor Habermasian civil society. Using Nanjing as a central case, the author shows that, prompted by this contradiction, the actions and creations of urban residents transformed the city on multiple levels.

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Figures, Maps, and Table Introduction: A New Approach to Chinese Urbanism 1. "We Must Be Taxed" 2. To Wall or Not to Wall 3. Imaging Nanjing: A Genealogy 4. Nanjing Through Contemporary Mouths and Ears Conclusion: Toward a New Perspective on Late Imperial Urbanization Appendix: Gu Qiyuan's Fengsu Treatise Notes Works Cited Index