Remaking the Chinese City: Modernity and National Identity, 1900-1950

Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2000. First ed., first printing (full number line). Octavo with black boards and pink foil spine title; red endpapers; x, 278 pages: illustrations; index; glossary; bibliography; 24 cm Near fine. Hardcover. ISBN: 9780824821483

Focusing on the experience of Chinese cities in the early 20th century, this work brings together research by a number of key contributors to this scholarly literature and offers a broadly informed, collective assessment of the late-Qing and Republican elite project to remake cities. Includes errata sheet with corrected map.

Contents: Modernity and nation in the Chinese city / Joseph W. Esherick. Canton remapped / Michael Tsin. Hygienic modernity in Tianjin / Ruth Rogaski. Urban identity and urban networks in cosmopolitan cities: banks and bankers in Tianjin, 1900-1937 / Brett Sheehan. Railway city and national capital: two faces of the modern in Changchun / David D. Buck. Yang Sen in Chengdu: urban planning in the interior / Kristin Stapleton. Tourism and spatial change in Hangzhou, 1911-1927 / Liping Wang. Defining Beiping: urban reconstruction and national identity, 1928-1936 / Madeleine Yue Dong. Building a dream: constructing a national capital in Nanjing, 1927-1937 / Charles D. Musgrove. Wuhan's search for identity in the Republican period / Stephen R. MacKinnon. The city as nation: creating a wartime capital in Chongqing / Lee McIsaac. Locating old Shanghai: having fits about where it fits / Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom. New Chinese cities / David Strand.