Main entry:

Musgrove, Charles D., 1970- author.

Title & Author:

China's contested capital : architecture, ritual, and response in Nanjing / Charles D. Musgrove.

Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2013]

Description:

ix, 316 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

Spatial habitus

Notes:
Published in China by Hong Kong University Press.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-303) and index.
The capital established: Sun Yat-Sen, Nationalist China, and Nanjing -- Visions of grandeur in the capital plan -- Administrative aesthetics and architectural revolution -- The necropolis of Nanjing: the GMD's ceremonial center and cosmological microcosm -- Lessons in allure: celebrations of state in the capital -- Views from the street: development, defiance and discipline in Nanjing.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

Charles Musgrove brings the city of Nanjing back into the discussion of China's modern development, focusing on how it was transformed from a factional capital with only regional influence into a symbol of nationhood - a city where newly forming ideals of citizenship were celebrated and contested on its streets and at its monuments.

ISBN:

9780824836283 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0824836286 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9789888139958
9888139959

Subject:

Zhongguo-Guomindang
Architecture Political aspects China Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng)
City planning China Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng)
Architecture Aspect politique Chine Nankin.
Architecture Political aspects.
City planning.
Politics and government
Stadtplanung
Arkitektur och samhälle Kina Nanjing.
Samhällsplanering Kina Nanjing.
Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng, China) History.
Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng, China) Politics and government.
China History 1928-1937.
Chine Histoire 1928-1937.
China.
China Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng)
Nanjing
Nanjing historia.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Spatial habitus (Series)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 283791
Call No.: BIB 222197
Status: Available