Lincoln, Toby
The Habitable City in China
1. Introduction: The Habitable City in Chinese History
Toby Lincoln, Xu Tao
2. The Chinese Corpsmen in the Shanghai Volunteer Corps
Xu Tao
3. Kunming Dreaming: Hope, Change, and War in the Autobiographies of Youth in China’s Southwest
Aaron William Moore
4. Securing the City, Securing the Nation: Militarization and Urban Police Work in Dalian, 1945–1953
Christian A. Hess
5. To See and Be Seen: Horse Racing in Shanghai, 1848–1945
Ning Jennifer Chang
6. Second-Class Workers: Gender, Industry, and Locality in Workers’ Welfare Provision in Revolutionary China
Robert Cliver
7. A Utopian Garden City: Zhang Jingsheng’s ‘Beautiful Beijing’
Leon Antonio Rocha
8. Habitability in the Treaty Ports: Shanghai and Tianjin
Isabella Jackson
9. Urbanization and Nature in China: The Example of Lake Tai
Toby Lincoln
10. Conclusion: Are Chinese Cities Becoming More Habitable?
Karl Gerth
Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, Asian Politics, Urban History, Asian Culture, Urban Studies/Sociology, Urbanism, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns)
- Editor
- Lincoln, Toby
- Tao, Xu
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2017
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Politics and Development of Contemporary China
- Category
- Society
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781137554710
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-137-55470-3