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Book Synopsis Dwelling in the World by : Elizabeth LaCouture
Download or read book Dwelling in the World written by Elizabeth LaCouture and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the early twentieth century, Chinese residents of the northern treaty-port city of Tianjin were dwelling in the world. Divided by nine foreign concessions, Tianjin was one of the world’s most colonized and cosmopolitan cities. Residents could circle the globe in an afternoon, strolling from a Chinese courtyard house through a Japanese garden past a French Beaux-Arts bank to dine at a German café and fall asleep in a British garden city-style semi-attached brick house. Dwelling in the World considers family, house, and home in Tianjin to explore how tempos and structures of everyday life changed with the fall of the Qing Empire and the rise of a colonized city. Elizabeth LaCouture argues that the intimate ideas and practices of the modern home were more important in shaping the gender and status identities of Tianjin’s urban elites than the new public ideology of the nation. Placing the Chinese home in a global context, she challenges Euro-American historical notions that the private sphere emerged from industrialization. She argues that concepts of individual property rights that emerged during the Republican era became foundational to state-society relations in early Communist housing reforms and in today’s middle-class real estate boom. Drawing on diverse sources from municipal archives, women’s magazines, and architectural field work to social surveys and colonial records, Dwelling in the World recasts Chinese social and cultural history, offering new perspectives on gender and class, colonialism and empire, visual and material culture, and technology and everyday life.
Book Synopsis China's Housing Reform and Outcomes by : Joyce Yanyun Man
Download or read book China's Housing Reform and Outcomes written by Joyce Yanyun Man and published by Lincoln Inst of Land Policy. This book was released on 2011 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This in-depth volume explains China's residential construction boom and reviews how some established trends are likely to challenge its housing market in coming years. It draws on household surveys and public data in China and provides important lessons about housing policy for China and other countries.
Download or read book Midnight in Peking written by Paul French and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the both the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime and the CWA Non-Fiction Dagger from the author of City of Devils Chronicling an incredible unsolved murder, Midnight in Peking captures the aftermath of the brutal killing of a British schoolgirl in January 1937. The mutilated body of Pamela Werner was found at the base of the Fox Tower, which, according to local superstition, is home to the maliciously seductive fox spirits. As British detective Dennis and Chinese detective Han investigate, the mystery only deepens and, in a city on the verge of invasion, rumor and superstition run rampant. Based on seven years of research by historian and China expert Paul French, this true-crime thriller presents readers with a rare and unique portrait of the last days of colonial Peking.
Book Synopsis Letters from China by : Sarah Pike Conger
Download or read book Letters from China written by Sarah Pike Conger and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Peking and the New Left: at home and abroad by : Klaus Mehnert
Download or read book Peking and the New Left: at home and abroad written by Klaus Mehnert and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Last Days of Old Beijing by : Michael Meyer
Download or read book The Last Days of Old Beijing written by Michael Meyer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-07-23 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journalist Michael Meyer has spent his adult life in China, first in a small village as a Peace Corps volunteer, the last decade in Beijing--where he has witnessed the extraordinary transformation the country has experienced in that time. For the past two years he has been completely immersed in the ancient city, living on one of its famed hutong in a century-old courtyard home he shares with several families, teaching English at a local elementary school--while all around him "progress" closes in as the neighborhood is methodically destroyed to make way for high-rise buildings, shopping malls, and other symbols of modern, urban life. The city, he shows, has been demolished many times before; however, he writes, "the epitaph for Beijing will read: born 1280, died 2008...what emperors, warlords, Japanese invaders, and Communist planners couldn't eradicate, the market economy can." The Last Days of Old Beijing tells the story of this historic city from the inside out-through the eyes of those whose lives are in the balance: the Widow who takes care of Meyer; his students and fellow teachers, the first-ever description of what goes on in a Chinese public school; the local historian who rallies against the government. The tension of preservation vs. modernization--the question of what, in an ancient civilization, counts as heritage, and what happens when a billion people want to live the way Americans do--suffuse Meyer's story.
Download or read book Current Background written by and published by . This book was released on 1977-04-25 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Literary Digest by : Edward Jewitt Wheeler
Download or read book The Literary Digest written by Edward Jewitt Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A House in Peking written by Robert Payne and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Student's Cyclopaedia by : Chandler Belden Beach
Download or read book The Student's Cyclopaedia written by Chandler Belden Beach and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ordered to China by : Wilbur J. Chamberlin
Download or read book Ordered to China written by Wilbur J. Chamberlin and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Appearances and Activities of Leading Personalities of the People's Republic of China by : United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Download or read book Appearances and Activities of Leading Personalities of the People's Republic of China written by United States. Central Intelligence Agency and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 1074 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hong Kong & Macau written by Jules Brown and published by Rough Guides. This book was released on 2002 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This resource includes full details of Hong Kong harbour, its shopping and nightlife districts, traditional sites and off-the-beaten track areas of the New Territories and outlying islands. A history and a cultural guide is included, as well as places to eat, drink and sleep on every budget. Background information on post-handover politics and features on festivals, feng shui and Chinese astrology are also included.
Book Synopsis The Ramsden Estate by : John Pateman
Download or read book The Ramsden Estate written by John Pateman and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin written by Oberlin College and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts by : United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Download or read book Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts written by United States. Central Intelligence Agency and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents by : United States. Congress. House
Download or read book House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
