Between Heaven and Modernity: Reconstructing Suzhou, 1895-1937 Hardcover - 2006 - 1st Edition
by Peter J. Carroll
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Combining social, political, and cultural history, this book examines the contestation over space, history, and power in the late Qing and Republican-era reconstruction of the ancient capital of Suzhou as a modern city. Located fifty miles west of Shanghai, Suzhou has been celebrated throughout Asia as a cynosure of Chinese urbanity and economic plenty for a thousand years. With the city's 1895 opening as a treaty port, businessmen and state officials began to draw on Western urban planning in order to bolster Chinese political and economic power against Japanese encroachment. As a result, both Suzhou as a whole and individual components of the cityscape developed new significance according to a calculus of commerce and nationalism. Japanese monks and travelers, Chinese officials, local people, and others competed to claim Suzhou's streets, state institutions, historic monuments, and temples, and thereby to define the course of Suzhou's and greater China's modernity.
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- Title Between Heaven and Modernity: Reconstructing Suzhou, 1895-1937
- Author Peter J. Carroll
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 344
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Stanford University Press, U.S.A.
- Date 2006-06-20
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780804753593 / 0804753598
- Weight 1.32 lbs (0.60 kg)
- Dimensions 9.32 x 6.2 x 1.01 in (23.67 x 15.75 x 2.57 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: Asian - Chinese
- Library of Congress subjects Suzhou (Jiangsu Sheng, China) - Economic, Suzhou (Jiangsu Sheng, China) - Economic
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005031345
- Dewey Decimal Code 330.951
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Citations
- Reference and Research Bk News, 11/01/2006, Page 104
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