From a Chinese City

From a Chinese City
Author: Gontran de Poncins
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1991
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781879434004

A French traveler describes the spirit of ancient China as it is manifested in Cholon, a city in South Vietnam. Forty-two "on-the-spot" halftone drawings.

The Chinese City

The Chinese City
Author: Weiping Wu
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2013
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0415575753

This text is anchored in the spatial sciences to offer a comprehensive survey of the evolving urban landscape in China. It is divided into four parts with 13 chapters that can be read together or as stand alone material.

Understanding the Chinese City

Understanding the Chinese City
Author: Li Shiqiao
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2014-04-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1473905397

This book teaches us to read the contemporary Chinese city. Li Shiqiao deftly crafts a new theory of the Chinese city and the dynamics of urbanization by: exploring the rise of stories of labour, finance and their hierarchies examining how the Chinese city has been shaped by the figuration of the writing system analyzing the continuing importance of the family and its barriers of protection against real and imagined dangers demonstrating how actual structures bring into visual being the networks of safety in personal and family networks. Understanding the Chinese City elegantly traces a thread between ancient Chinese city formations and current urban organizations, revealing hidden continuities that show how instrumental the past has been in forming the present. Rather than becoming obstacles to change, ancient practices have become effective strategies of adaptation under radically new terms.

The Chinese City in Space and Time

The Chinese City in Space and Time
Author: Yinong Xu
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages: 520
Release: 2000-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780824820763

Drawing on a wealth of primary materials detailing the city's history, customs, and urban construction as well as on recent work in Chinese history, culture, and religion, Yinong Xu examines characteristics of building and transformation in pre-modern Suzhou, characteristics that, while particular to the city's own historical development, reflect or were determined by factors representative of China's urban history in general.".

Hong Kong

Hong Kong
Author: Stephen Chiu
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2009-06-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 1134600631

Hong Kong is a small city with a big reputation. As mainland China has become an 'economic powerhouse' Hong Kong has taken a route of development of its own, flourishing as an entrepot and a centre of commerce and finance for Chinese business, then as an industrial city and subsequently a regional and international financial centre. This volume examines the developmental history of Hong Kong, focusing on its rise to the status of a Chinese global city in the world economy. Chiu and Lui's analysis is distinct in its perspective of the development as an integrated process involving economic, political and social dimensions, and as such this insightful and original book will be a core text on Hong Kong society for students.

Restructuring the Chinese City

Restructuring the Chinese City
Author: Laurence J.C. Ma
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2004-08-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 1134316089

A sea of change has occurred in China since the 1978 economic reforms. Bringing together the work of leading scholars specializing in urban China, this book examines what has happened to the Chinese city undergoing multiple transformations during the reform era, with an emphasis on new processes of urban formation and the consequent reconstituted urban spaces. With arguments against the convergence thesis that sees cities everywhere becoming more Western in form and suggestions that the Chinese city is best seen as a multiplex city, Restructuring the Chinese City is an indispensable text for Chinese specialists, urban scholars and advanced students in urban geography, urban planning and China studies.

From Village to City

From Village to City
Author: Andrew B. Kipnis
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2016-03-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0520964276

Between 1988 and 2013, the Chinese city of Zouping transformed from an impoverished town of 30,000 people to a bustling city of over 300,000, complete with factories, high rises, parks, shopping malls, and all the infrastructure of a wealthy East Asian city. FromVillage toCity paints a vivid portrait of the rapid changes in Zouping and its environs and in the lives of the once-rural people who live there. Despite the benefits of modernization and an improved standard of living for many of its residents, Zouping is far from a utopia; its inhabitants face new challenges and problems such as alienation, class formation and exclusion, and pollution. As he explores the city’s transformation, Andrew B. Kipnis develops a new theory of urbanization in this compelling portrayal of an emerging metropolis and its people.

Chinese Imperial City Planning

Chinese Imperial City Planning
Author: Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1999-04-01
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780824821968

Chinese Imperial City Planning is the first synthesis of what is known from textual and archaeological evidence about every Chinese imperial capital, from earliest times to the present. It explains the fundamental architectural principles and visual characteristics of imperial planning in China and shows how these features are related to the Chinese idea of rulership. The volume also reconstructs the 3,500-year-old history of imperial planning using sources such as resident descriptions, travel accounts, official Chinese court records, and the most recent archaeological and scholarly studies. The extensive documentation provides students with a standard source of reference from which to embark on further research on Chinese urban planning.