Toby Lincoln (University of Leicester)

An Urban History of China

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Produktbeschreibung

For thousands of years China had a vibrant imperial urban civilization, which over the last century has been transformed into the largest urban society in the world. Toby Lincoln offers the first comprehensive history of Chinese cities from their origins to the present.

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Produktdetails

• New Approaches to Asian History
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 468g
• ISBN-13: 9781316647288
• ISBN-10: 1316647285
• Artikelnr.: 60889622

Autorenporträt

Toby Lincoln is Associate Professor of Chinese Urban History at the University of Leicester.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. The emergence of China's imperial urban civilization (antiquity to 220 CE)
3. Expansion of China's imperial urban civilization to the south (220-755)
4. The Tang-Song transition and its effects on China's imperial urban civilization (907-1402)
5. The flowering of Chinese imperial urban civilization (1402-1799)
6. The seeds of urban modernity (1800-1895)
7. Urban modernity in Republican China (1895-1949)
8. The Maoist period (1949-1976)
9. The Reform Era and the present
10. Conclusion.