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ISBN 10: 1137554711 
ISBN 13: 9781137554710
Author: Palgrave Macmillan

This book offers a new perspective on Chinese urban history by exploring cities as habitable spaces. China, the world’s most populous nation, is now its newest urban society, and the pace of this unprecedented historical transformation has increased in recent decades. The contributors to this book conceptualise cities as first providing the necessities of life, and then becoming places in which the quality of life can be improved. They focus on how cities have been made secure during times of instability, how their inhabitants have consumed everything from the simplest of foods to the most expensive luxuries, and how they have been planned as ideal spaces. Drawing examples from across the country, this book offers comparisons between different cities, highlights continuities across time and space—and in doing so may provide solutions to some of the problems that continue to affect Chinese cities today.

The Habitable City in China Urban History in the Twentieth Century 1st Table of contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction: The Habitable City in Chinese History
What Is Urban Habitability?
Urban Habitability in Historical Approaches to the Chinese City
Chapter Summary
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 2: The Chinese Corpsmen in the Shanghai Volunteer Corps
Introduction
The Creation of the Chinese Physical Recreation Association
Incorporation into the SVC
Struggling for Equal Rights
The Creation of the Interpreter Company and Final Disbandment of the SVC
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Social Shanghai
Chapter 3: Kunming Dreaming: Hope, Change, and War in the Autobiographies of Youth in China’s
Living the Liminal: Young People Think About Family, Society, and Nation at China’s Periphery
Crossroads Kunming: Education, Youth, and the City at the End of the Nanjing Government
Notes
Bibliography
Unsigned Archival Manuscripts
Signed Archival Manuscripts
Published Materials and Library Special Collections
Chapter 4: Securing the City, Securing the Nation: Militarization and Urban Police Work in Dalia
Introduction
Establishing and Training Communist China’s First Urban Police Force
Militarization
Combating Security Threats
Securing People and Resources
Dalian and the Korean War: Localizing National Security
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 5: To See and Be Seen: Horse Racing in Shanghai, 1848–1945
Pillar of the Foreign Community
To See and Be Seen
An Exotic Fun Spectacle
From Outsider to Insider
Betting and Watching
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 6: Second-Class Workers: Gender, Industry, and Locality in Workers’ Welfare Provision in
Introduction
The Revolution in the Wuxi Silk Filatures
The Revolution in Shanghai’s Silk-Weaving Factories
Labor Relations, Gender Conflict, and ‘Democratic Reform’ in the Wuxi Filatures
Location: Welfare Benefits for Workers in Shanghai and Wuxi
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 7: A Utopian Garden City: Zhang Jingsheng’s ‘Beautiful Beijing’
Zhang Jingsheng’s Sentimental Revolution
Utopian Bricolage and Aesthetic Energetics
Design for a Beautiful Beijing
From Blueprint to Plan of Action
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 8: Habitability in the Treaty Ports: Shanghai and Tianjin
‘Model Settlements’
Expansion
Building Regulations
Public Spaces
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 9: Urbanization and Nature in China: The Example of Lake Tai
Seeing the Lake
Republican Period
The Maoist Era
The Reform Era
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 10: Conclusion: Are Chinese Cities Becoming More Habitable?
Note
Bibliography

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