China: A Historical Geography of the Urban

Chapter 1. Introduction;&nbsp;Yannan Ding.- PART I. Nation and City.- Chapter&nbsp;2. Shanghai Parks in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century – Architectural and Cultural Exchanges between the East and the West;&nbsp;Hsiu-Ling Kuo. Chapter 3.&nbsp;A City of Workers, a City for Workers? Remaking Beijing Urban Space in the Early PRC;&nbsp;Fabio Lanza.- Chapter&nbsp;4. Changchun across 1949: Rebuilding a Colonial Capital City under Socialism in the Early 1950s;&nbsp;Yishi Liu.- PART II. Mediating History and Modernity.- Chapter&nbsp;5. Tunxi: Urban Sectoral Agglomeration in a Regional Center of Tea Trade;&nbsp;Yi Zou, Xi Lin.- Chapter&nbsp;6. What’s in a Name: The ‘New Village’ in Shanghai, 1930-1980;&nbsp;Duan Zheng, Xiaohong Zhang.- Chapter 7. The View of Comparison about Politics of Street Names between Taipei and Shanghai;&nbsp;Wenchuan Huang.-&nbsp;PART III. Contemporary City Building.- Chapter&nbsp;8. Disneyfication or Self-referentiality: Recent Conservation Efforts and ModernPlanning History in Datong;&nbsp;Shulan Fu, Jean Hillier.- Chapter&nbsp;9. The Politics of Aesthetics in Tianjin between Past and Present;&nbsp;Maurizio Marinelli.- Chapter&nbsp;10. Living in the “Past”: The Effects of a Growing Preservation Discourse in Contemporary Urban China;&nbsp;Philipp Demgenski.<div><br></div>