Civilizing Chengdu : Chinese urban reform, 1895-1937 /

Stapleton, Kristin Eileen.

Civilizing Chengdu : Chinese urban reform, 1895-1937 / Chinese urban reform, 1895-1937 Kristin Stapleton. - Cambridge, Mass. : Published by the Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Havard University Press, c2000. - xii, 341 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Harvard East Asian monographs ; 186 . - Harvard East Asian monographs ; 186. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-326) and index.

"Civilizing Chengdu examines urban planning and administration during modern China's first age of city-centered politics. Between 1895 and 1937, the management of cities emerged as one of the Chinese state's chief challenges. Through a detailed study of the process as it took place in Chengdu, a key provincial capital in the interior, this book shows how urban reformers sought to remake Chinese cities by promoting a new type of orderly and productive urban community in population centers that before had been treated mainly as hubs for trade and seats of central government."--BOOK JACKET.

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Urbanization--China--Chengdu.
City planning--China--Chengdu.
Stadsplanning.
Lokaal bestuur.
Urbanisation--Chine--Sichuan.
Urbanisme--Chine--Sichuan.
Stadt.
Reformpolitik.


China--History--20th century.
Sichuan (Chine)--20e siècle.
Sichuan (Chine)--Politique et gouvernement--20e siècle.
China.
Chengdu.

HT147.C48 / S76 2000

307.1/216/095138