Cities in Motion

Cities in Motion: An Introduction

David Strand and Sherman Cochran

Part I: Organizing Urban Life

1. Grave Concerns: Bodies, Burial, and Identity in Early Republican China
Caroline Reeves

2. Warfare and Modern Urban Administration in Chinese Cities
Kristin Stapleton

Part II: Movements and Networking

3. Webs and Hierarchies: Banks and Bankers in Motion, 1900-1950
Brett Sheehan

4. To the Countryside: Communist Recruitment in Wartime Shanghai
Allison Rottmann

Part III: Importing the Modern City

5. Architects as Cultural Heroes
Vimalin Rujivacharakul

6. Shanghai Fashion: Merchants and Business as Agents of Urban Vision
Karl Gerth

7. Visions of Order and Modernity: Crime, Punishment, and Justice in Urban China during the Republican Period
Klaus Mühlhahn

Part IV: Exporting the Chinese City

8. Exporting Homosociality: Culture and Community in Chinatown America, 1882-1943
Madeline Hsu

9. Moving Bones: Hong Kong's Role as an "In-between Place" in the Chinese Diaspora
Elizabeth Sinn

10. Charisma in Motion: The Compassion Relief Movement in Taiwan, Japan, Malaysia, and the United States
Robert P. Weller and C. Julia Huang

Index

Contributors