In China today skyscrapers tower over ancient temples, freeways deliver lines of cars and
tour buses to imperial palaces, cinema houses compete with old theaters featuring Peking …

Given this glorious history of urban planning, it is somewhat ironic that in the modern era
both Chinese and foreign observers saw Chinese cities as dirty, disorderly, unhealthy, and …

Chinese cities are the country's engine of economic growth. The level of urbanization
increased from 18 percent in 1978 to over 43 percent in 2005 (State StatisticalBureau 2006) …

In the midst of ChinaÕs wild rush to modernize, a surprising note of reality arises: Shanghai,
it seems, was once modern indeed, a pulsing center of commerce and art in the heart of the …

This work examines the history of urban planning and administration during modern China's
first age of city-centered politics, focusing on the New Policies of the late Qing and the city …

Historians used to believe that the Chinese imperial state was powerful enough to extend
direct control over the lives of all its people, taxing them unmercifully and bending them by …

The purpose of this volume is to treat the progress of history, civilization and urban
development of China together in order to demonstrate the unique qualities of Chinese …

China is the most rapidly urbanizing nation in the world, with an urban population that may
well reach one billion within a generation. Over the past 25 years, surging economic growth …

In this pioneering study of contemporary Chinese urban form, Duanfang Lu provides an
analysis of how Chinese society constructed itself through the making and remaking of its …

From the 1950s to the 1970s, historians′ approach to Republican China was informed by a
predominant concern for Revolution. Scholarly priorities were focused on the early history of …