"In this book, Stephan Feuchtwang and his contributors offer a set of historical, anthropological and scale-mediated studies from China - a country that includes a subcontinental variety of cultures and landscapes. In the 20th century it experienced collapse in civil war and was…
To make a place is to create a location where its creators can feel they belong. Processes of place-making are still very much ongoing today. Geographers, sociologists, political scientists and philosophers of advanced capitalism have said that place is a localisation of the glo…
"The main theme of this book is the interaction between two "places," China and Guanzhong, the capital area of several dynasties. It addresses such questions as What do we mean by "local"? Did the inhabitants of a locality believe that being "local" required them to assume a cer…
