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Beijing's Place-Names: From Cosmological Symbolism to Urban-Planner Practicality.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Beijing's Place-Names: From Cosmological Symbolism to Urban-Planner Practicality./
Author:	Yu, Yong.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2015,
Description:	331 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-09(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International76-09A(E).
Subject:	Geography. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3703050
ISBN:	9781321746679

Beijing's Place-Names: From Cosmological Symbolism to Urban-Planner Practicality.
Yu, Yong.

Beijing's Place-Names: From Cosmological Symbolism to Urban-Planner Practicality. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2015 - 331 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-09(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2015.

This is a study of the Chinese city of Beijing in which I use "place names" as a means of understanding the changing geography of the city over its long history. Although place names have been widely studied from across a spectrum of disciplines, a study on the history of the process of naming places in China is still very limited in English literature. Moreover, place naming is not only a historical process but also geographical phenomena. Scholars have for long seemingly ignored the fact that people with different cultural backgrounds, living in different parts of the world, may name their places in different ways. In the USA, Martin Luther King streets may be seen all over the map, yet for all the worshiping of Chairman Mao during the Cultural Revolution, there is not a single street named after him in China. Accordingly, the aim of this study is to discover the character of Chinese place-names by using Beijing as the case.

ISBN: 9781321746679Subjects--Topical Terms:

524010
Geography.

Beijing's Place-Names: From Cosmological Symbolism to Urban-Planner Practicality.
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