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.