China's Contested Capital: Architecture, Ritual, and Response in Nanjing

At the same time, the book makes the case that, although it was unintended by party planners who promoted single-party rule, Nanjing’s legitimacy was also a product of protests and contestation, which the party-state only partially succeeded in channeling for its own ends.China’s Contested Capital i...

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Main Author: Musgrove, Charles D. (Author)
Other Authors: Knapp, Ronald G. (Editor), Ruan, Xing (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Honolulu University of Hawaii Press [2013]
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Summary:At the same time, the book makes the case that, although it was unintended by party planners who promoted single-party rule, Nanjing’s legitimacy was also a product of protests and contestation, which the party-state only partially succeeded in channeling for its own ends.China’s Contested Capital is an important contribution to the literature on twentieth-century Chinese urban history and the social and political history of one of China’s key cities during the Republican period
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Nov 2017)
Physical Description:1 online resource 49 illus
ISBN:9780824837952

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