Toby Lincoln

An Urban History of China

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first history of Chinese cities from their early origins to becoming the largest urban society in the world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 198mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781107196421
• ISBN-10: 1107196426
• Artikelnr.: 62232144

Autorenporträt

Toby Lincoln is Associate Professor of Chinese Urban History at the University of Leicester.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. The emergence of China's imperial urban civilization (antiquity to 220 CE)
3. Expansion of China's imperial urban civilization to the south (220-755)
4. The Tang-Song transition and its effects on China's imperial urban civilization (907-1402)
5. The flowering of Chinese imperial urban civilization (1402-1799)
6. The seeds of urban modernity (1800-1895)
7. Urban modernity in Republican China (1895-1949)
8. The Maoist period (1949-1976)
9. The Reform Era and the present
10. Conclusion.