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Ye, Zhiguo.

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Big is modern: The making of Wuhan as a mega-city in early twentieth century China, 1889--1957.

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Big is modern: The making of Wuhan as a mega-city in early twentieth century China, 1889--1957./
作者:	Ye, Zhiguo.
面頁冊數:	239 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-10, Section: A, page: .
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International71-10A.
標題:	History, Asia, Australia and Oceania. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3418387
ISBN:	9781124166414

Big is modern: The making of Wuhan as a mega-city in early twentieth century China, 1889--1957.
Ye, Zhiguo.

Big is modern: The making of Wuhan as a mega-city in early twentieth century China, 1889--1957. - 239 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-10, Section: A, page: .

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Minnesota, 2010.

My dissertation examines the city making process of Wuhan out of three different towns. The three towns, Wuchang, Hankou and Hanyang, located at the confluence of the Yangzi River and its largest tributary, the Han River, were divided by water and the imperial administration. In less than fifty years, the three towns disappeared, and in their place emerged Wuhan, the largest Chinese city in terms of its urban area. The urban integration was so successful that their separate pasts have been left out of current public memory. The goal of my study is to understand why and how Wuhan was made, and what the obsession with the city's big size can tell us about Chinese imagination and experience of modernity in the twentieth century.

ISBN: 9781124166414Subjects--Topical Terms:

626624
History, Asia, Australia and Oceania.

Big is modern: The making of Wuhan as a mega-city in early twentieth century China, 1889--1957.
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520 $a In answering these questions, the project is designed to cover three periods from late Qing, the republic, to the early PRC, and to trace modernizing efforts made by successive regimes to create "Great Wuhan." It focuses on five key historical periods---the late Qing reform, the urban self recovery after the 1911 revolution, the modernist planning from 1927--1936, Wuhan as a wartime capital in the Anti-Japanese War (1937--1945), and the socialist urban reconstruction from 1949 to 1957. The study shows the 1911 revolution as a turning moment when a modern city was designed to depart from its imperial antecedent. It was Sun Yat-sen, the founding father of Republican China, who first proposed the idea of "Great Wuhan." Such a gigantic urban project shows that Sun was thinking "big." I argued that his way of thinking prevailed with the emergence of a strong scientific faith, which primarily placed upon young technologically trained officials and engineers later. Like Sun Yat-sen, they envisioned a total transformation of modern China through re-engineering urban society and infrastructure construction. This "big" vision of modernity---gigantic and centralized---was promoted by both Chinese Nationalists and Communists and ran across time and ideology in shaping contemporary urban landscape.
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