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Cities in Motion

Interior, Coast, and Diaspora in Transnational China
by David Strand (Editor), Sherman Cochran (Editor), Wen-hsin Yeh (Editor)
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Price: $32.00 / £27.00
Publication Date: Jan 2007
Publisher:
Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California Berkeley
Imprint: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California Berkeley
Title Details:
Rights: World
Pages: 322
ISBN: 9781557292209
Trim Size: 6 x 9
Series:
  • China Research Monograph
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About the Book

This volume offers a fresh perspective on how Chinese cities were transformed or "Westernized" in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries and how Asian and Western cities received Chinese influences dispatched through the media of commerce and migration.

About the Author

David Strand is Charles A. Dana Professor of Political Science at Dickinson College. Education: B.A. Lawrence University, M.A. Columbia University, M. Phil. Columbia University, Ph.D. Columbia University

Sherman Cochran is Hu Shih Professor Emeritus of Chinese History at Cornell University. Education: B.A. Yale University, M.A. Yale University, Ph.D. Yale University

Wen-hsin Yeh is professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley. She has served as the director of the Institute of East Asian Studies and the chair of the Center for Chinese Studies at Berkeley. She has edited and contributed to many IEAS publications, including Mobile Subjects; Mobile Horizons; History in Images; Cities in Motion; Empire, Nation, and Beyond; Cross-Cultural Readings of Chineseness; Landscape, Culture, and Space in Chinese Society; and Shanghai Sojourners. Education: B.A., History, National Taiwan University; M.A., History, University of Southern California; Ph.D., History, University of California, Berkeley

Table of Contents

Cities in Motion: An Introduction

David Strand and Sherman Cochran

Part I: Organizing Urban Life

1. Grave Concerns: Bodies, Burial, and Identity in Early Republican China
    Caroline Reeves

2. Warfare and Modern Urban Administration in Chinese Cities
    Kristin Stapleton

Part II: Movements and Networking

3. Webs and Hierarchies: Banks and Bankers in Motion, 1900–1950
    Brett Sheehan

4. To the Countryside: Communist Recruitment in Wartime Shanghai
    Allison Rottmann

Part III: Importing the Modern City

5. Architects as Cultural Heroes
    Vimalin Rujivacharakul

6. Shanghai Fashion: Merchants and Business as Agents of Urban Vision
    Karl Gerth

7. Visions of Order and Modernity: Crime, Punishment, and Justice in Urban China during the Republican Period
    Klaus Mühlhahn

Part IV: Exporting the Chinese City

8. Exporting Homosociality: Culture and Community in Chinatown America, 1882–1943
    Madeline Hsu

9. Moving Bones: Hong Kong's Role as an ""In-between Place"" in the Chinese Diaspora
    Elizabeth Sinn

10. Charisma in Motion: The Compassion Relief Movement in Taiwan, Japan, Malaysia, and the United States
    Robert P. Weller and C. Julia Huang

Index

Contributors

Reviews

"[This is a] collection of excellent studies on movement and flow in China's urban networks. The volume can just as easily be praised for displaying the richness with which spatial questions are now being explored by China scholars. Furthermore, the book makes an excellent pedagogical resource by inviting students to ask important questions about "the spatial approach" to Chinese history."—Tim Oakes, University of Colorado, Boulder, The China Journal, no. 61 (January 2009): 155–157

"This is a bold and fascinating collection of essays by a group of distinguished authors who work in different areas of modern Chinese history. The themes that join their work together are movement and migration. The volume makes a strong and direct recognition of the key role of migration, in all its forms, in modern Chinese history."—Diana Lary, China Review International 17, no. 4 (2010): 421–424

"This volume builds usefully upon the expanding literature on Chinese urban environments and their many linkages, enriching the subject by providing new sets of details and intriguing avenues of inquiry. The editors' introduction also adequately surveys the relevant features of this historiography. As such, the collection enhances the scholarly understanding of Chinese society at large."—Bill Sewell, Saint Mary's University, Pacific Affairs 81, no. 2 (Summer 2008): 267–269

“[A] chief inspiration for the anthology is the notion of motion, not in the sense of activity within the city (although that certainly is featured in some articles), but rather in the motion of ideas between and across urban settings throughout China….The articles in the book demonstrate the permeability of regional and national borders in China’s late-Imperial- and Republican-era transformations. ‘Motion’, therefore, often seems a rather more important term than ‘cities’ in many of the chapters….The work does definitely belong on the bookshelf of those interested in modern China.”—Johnathan Farris, Savannah College of Art and Design in Hong Kong, Planning Perspectives 26, no. 3 (July 2011): 505–507