China: A Historical Geography of the Urban

256 Pages·2018·4.522 MB·English

by  Yannan Ding, Maurizio Marinelli, Xiaohong Zhang, (eds.)

CHINA: A HISTORICAL
GEOGRAPHY OF THE URBAN
Edited by Yannan Ding,
Maurizio Marinelli, Xiaohong Zhang
China: A Historical Geography of the Urban
Yannan Ding • Maurizio Marinelli
Xiaohong Zhang
Editors
China: A Historical
Geography of the
Urban
Editors
Yannan Ding Maurizio Marinelli
Fudan University University of Sussex
Shanghai, P. R. China Brighton, UK
Xiaohong Zhang
Fudan University
Shanghai, P. R. China
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Acknowledgments
This book grew out of two consecutive sessions titled ‘Urban Historical
Geography of China’ that we organized for the 16th International
Conference of Historical Geographers (ICHG), held during July 5–10,
2015, in London. A follow-up workshop was held on May 14, 2016, in
Shanghai. We had been able to bring together a small and interdisciplin-
ary group of scholars from across the globe to work on this topic. Our
gratitude goes to them for their contribution, patience, and flexibility
towards this book project. We would also like to thank our editor at
Palgrave, Joanna O’Neill, for her professional support in every step of the
manuscript preparing work. Many thanks go to our families and friends
for their encouragement and support that made this book possible.
This book benefited from the financial support that we received from
the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC No.
41501153) and the Ministry of Education of China (grant No.
10JJD770003).
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Contents
1 Introduction 1
Yannan Ding
Part I Nation and City 15
2 Shanghai Parks in the Second Half of the Nineteenth
Century: Architectural and Cultural Exchanges Between
the East and the West 17
Hsiu-Ling Kuo
3 A City of Workers, a City for Workers? Remaking
Beijing Urban Space in the Early PRC 41
Fabio Lanza
4 Changchun Across 1949: Rebuilding a Colonial
Capital City Under Socialism in the Early 1950s 67
Yishi Liu
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Part II Mediating History and Modernity 89
5 Tunxi: Urban Sectoral Agglomeration in a Regional
Centre of Tea Trade 91
Yi Zou and Xi Lin
6 What’s in a Name: The “New Village” in Shanghai,
1930–1980 115
Duan Zheng and Xiaohong Zhang
7 A Comparison of Politics of Street Names in Taipei
and Shanghai 137
Wenchuan Huang
Part III Contemporary City Building 163
8 Disneyfication or Self-Referentiality: Recent
Conservation Efforts and Modern Planning
History in Datong 165
Shulan Fu and Jean Hillier
9 The Politics of Aesthetics in Tianjin Between Past
and Present 193
Maurizio Marinelli
10 Living in the “Past”: The Effects of a Growing
Preservation Discourse in Contemporary Urban China 225
Philipp Demgenski
Index 251
List of Figures
Fig. 3.1 Luo Feng, “The box factory at the Beixinqiao people’s
commune,” in Shoudu chengshi renming gongshe suxie
[Sketches about the urban people’s communes in the capital]
(Beijing, Renmin meishu chubanshe, 1960) 51
Fig. 3.2 Zong Qixiang, “A view of the Erlonglu neighborhood
industrial production,” in Shoudu chengshi renming
gongshe suxie [Sketches about the urban people’s communes
in the capital] (Beijing, Renmin meishu chubanshe, 1960) 55
Fig. 4.1 The 1932 Plan of the New Capital, which incorporates four
fragmented parts of Changchun. Source: By the courtesy of the
Planning Institute of Changchun 70
Fig. 4.2 The bird’s view of the main gate of the First Automobile Works
(FAW) in 1957. Source: By courtesy of the FAW Archives 72
Fig. 4.3 A typical Chinese-style apartment with the corner tower
above the roof (by the author) 76
Fig. 5.1 Rivers and mountain ranges in Huizhou 95
Fig. 5.2 The tea road from Huizhou to Guangzhou 100
Fig. 5.3 Location of tea manufacturers and supporting industries
in Tunxi 108
Fig. 6.1 Distribution of the New Villages, 1936 121
Fig. 6.2 Distribution of the New Villages, 1986 127
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Fig. 8.1 City map and drawing of the final Uchida Plan in the 1930s.
(a) City map of Datong in 1937, (b) Drawing of the final
plan in 1939. Source: Nakajima Naoto 173
Fig. 8.2 Drawing of the master plans in (a) 1955, (b) 1985, (c) 2006.
Source: Urban Construction Archive of Datong City 175
Fig. 8.3 Project area of two cases in Land Use Analysis of Datong
Old City. Map Source: Shulan Fu 179
Fig. 8.4 Recent photos of the West City Wall and Huayansi.
(a) Construction scene of the West City Wall, (b) The tourist
square in front of Huayansi. Source: (a) Jean Hillier
(September 29, 2016), (b) Shulan Fu (September 23, 2016) 180
Fig. 9.1 Map of Tianjin, 1912. From Madrolle’s guide books:
Northern China, The Valley of the Blue River, Korea.
Hachette & Company, 1912 195
Fig. 9.2 The ex-Italian concession, May 2013 (by the author) 211
Fig. 10.1 Map of Dabaodao (by Ulf Etzold) 233
Fig. 10.2 A Liyuan Courtyard in 2012 (by the author) 234
List of Tables
Table 7.1 The categories of street names in Qing Taipei 142
Table 7.2 The categories of street names in the British settlement 144
Table 7.3 The types of street names in British and
American settlements 145
Table 7.4 The naming system of Chōs in Taipei City, 1922 148
Table 7.5 The patterns of street-naming in Taipei City after WWII 152
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