Town and Country in China
Identity and Perception
Published on 15. November 2001
Book
Hardback
IX, 260 pages
978-0-333-94595-7 (ISBN)
Description
The transformation in Chinese social theory in the twentieth century placed the rural-urban divide at the centre of individual identity. In 1500, such distinctions were insignificant and it was the emergence of political reforms in the early 1920s and 1930s which separated cities and towns as agents of social change and encouraged a perception of rural backwardness. This interdisciplinary collection traces the development and distinctions between urban and rural life and the effect on the Chinese sense of identity from the sixteenth century to the present day. It provides a daunting example of the influence that political ideology may exert on an individual's sense of place.
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Edition
2001 edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
IX, 260 p.
Dimensions
Height: 223 mm
Width: 146 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
522 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-94595-7 (9780333945957)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-137-07001-2
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Persons
DARIA BERG Lecturer in Chinese Literature, University of Durham
HENRIETTA HARRISON Lecturer in History, University of Leeds
ELISABETH KÖLL Assistant Professor, Department of History, Case Western Reserve University
HANCHAO LU Associate Professor, School of History, Technology and Society, Georgia Institute of Technology
MA MIN Professor of History, Central China Normal University
HELEN F. SIU Professor in Anthropology, Yale University
ZHAO SHIYU Professor of History, Beijing Normal University
CATHERINE VANCE YEH Institute of Chinese Studies, University of Heidelberg
Content
List of Maps and Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction Marvelling at the Wonders of the Metropolis: Perceptions of Seventeenth-Century Chinese Cities in the Novel xingshi yinyuan zhuan ; D.Berg Town and Country Representation as Seen in Temple Fairs; Z.Shiyu What Weber Did Not Know: Towns and Economic Development in Ming and Qing China; D.Faure Village Identity in Rural North China: A Sense of Place in the Diary of Liu Dapeng; H.Harrison Factories in the Countryside: The Industrial Workforce and Social Division in Nantong County, 1895-1937; E.Köll Urban Superiority, Modernity, and Local Identity: A Think Piece on the Case of Shanghai; H.Lu Civil Society in Late Qing Suzhou; M.Min Representing the City: Shanghai and its Maps; C.V.Yeh Perceptions of City and Country in Republican Fiction; T.T.Liu Redefining the Market Town Through Festivals in South China; H.F.Siu Index