"Civilizing Chengdu examines urban planning and administration during modern China's first age of city-centered politics. Between 1895 and 1937, the management of cities emerged as one of the Chinese state's chief challenges. Through a detailed study of the process as it took pl…
Introduction: the man, the place, the novel -- From Tianhui to Chengdu: geopoetics and historical imagination -- No place for good memories: Chengdu 1911 -- Tempest in a teacup: local memorial dynamics -- Love in the time of revolution -- The road to perdition -- Conclusion: no …
Engaged with the paradigms of cultural geography, local history, spatial politics, and everyday life, The Lost Geopoetic Horizon of Li Jieren unveils a Sichuan writer¿́¿s lifelong quest: an independent historical fiction writing project on Chengdu from the turn of the century thr…
"Despite its emergence from backward isolation into a dynamic world economic power, a quarter-century after the People's Army crushed unarmed protestors ... labeled anti-revolutionaries ... in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989, the defining event of China's modern history remains…
Who exactly are China's new rich? This pioneering investigation introduces readers to the private lives--and the nightlives--of the powerful entrepreneurs and managers redefining success and status in the city of Chengdu. Over the course of more than three years, anthropologist …
