Between Heaven and Modernity: Reconstructing Suzhou, 1895-1937

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Stanford University Press, 2006 - 325 頁
Combining social, political, and cultural history, this book examines the contestation over space, history, and power in the late Qing and Republican-era reconstruction of the ancient capital of Suzhou as a modern city. Located fifty miles west of Shanghai, Suzhou has been celebrated throughout Asia as a cynosure of Chinese urbanity and economic plenty for a thousand years. With the city's 1895 opening as a treaty port, businessmen and state officials began to draw on Western urban planning in order to bolster Chinese political and economic power against Japanese encroachment. As a result, both Suzhou as a whole and individual components of the cityscape developed new significance according to a calculus of commerce and nationalism. Japanese monks and travelers, Chinese officials, local people, and others competed to claim Suzhou s streets, state institutions, historic monuments, and temples, and thereby to define the course of Suzhou s and greater China s modernity.

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In Traditions Temple the Prefectural Confucian Temple
99
The Building of Modern Chinese Culture
132
A Tocsin Sounds at Hanshan Temple
173
Revaluing National Treasures in the Urban Landscape
205
Preservation and Industrial
241
Notes
253
Selected Bibliography
293
Index
317
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Peter J. Carroll is Assistant Professor of History at Northwestern University.

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