Book contents
- An Urban History of China
- New Approaches to Asian History
- An Urban History of China
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 The Emergence of China’s Imperial Urban Civilization (Antiquity to 220 CE)
- 2 The Expansion of China’s Imperial Urban Civilization to the South (220–755)
- 3 The Tang-Song Transition and Its Effects on China’s Imperial Urban Civilization (907–1402)
- 4 The Flowering of Chinese Imperial Urban Civilization (1402–1799)
- 5 The Seeds of Urban Modernity (1800–1895)
- 6 Urban Modernity in Republican China (1895–1949)
- 7 The Maoist Period (1949–1976)
- 8 The Reform Era and the Present
- Conclusion
- Index
- Series page
Conclusion
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 April 2021
- An Urban History of China
- New Approaches to Asian History
- An Urban History of China
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 The Emergence of China’s Imperial Urban Civilization (Antiquity to 220 CE)
- 2 The Expansion of China’s Imperial Urban Civilization to the South (220–755)
- 3 The Tang-Song Transition and Its Effects on China’s Imperial Urban Civilization (907–1402)
- 4 The Flowering of Chinese Imperial Urban Civilization (1402–1799)
- 5 The Seeds of Urban Modernity (1800–1895)
- 6 Urban Modernity in Republican China (1895–1949)
- 7 The Maoist Period (1949–1976)
- 8 The Reform Era and the Present
- Conclusion
- Index
- Series page
Summary
This book is an introduction to Chinese urban history from its origins to the present. I have described how cities changed, and I have summarized some of the major debates about why they did so. I have also made several arguments about Chinese urban history myself. Here, I summarize these arguments and then note some of the areas of urban history that I have either not given enough space to or in some cases barely mentioned at all. Finally, I offer some comments on the present and future of Chinese urbanization, and its impact on the rest of the world.
I make three main arguments in this book. The first is that despite being the longest-existing and largest agricultural empire the world has ever seen, China has always had a vibrant urban civilization.
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- An Urban History of China , pp. 254 - 263Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021