Republican Beijing the city and its histories - Dong, Madeleine Yue (University of California Press, 2003)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART ONE: The City of Planners -- 1. From Imperial Capital to Republican City -- 2. Power: The City and Its People -- 3. Tradition: The City and the Nation -- PART TWO: The City of Experience -- 4. Production: Beijing in a New Economic System -- 5. Consumption: Spatial and Temporal Hierarchies -- 6. Recycling: The Tianqiao District -- PART THREE: The Lettered City -- 7. Sociology: Examining Urban Ills -- 8. History: Recording Old Beijing -- 9. Literature: Writing New Beijing -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
Old Beijing has become a subject of growing fascination in contemporary China since the 1980s. While physical remnants from the past are being bulldozed every day to make space for glass-walled skyscrapers and towering apartment buildings, nostalgia for t