Making place : state projects, globalisation and local responses in China / edited by Stephan Feuchtwang.

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English
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London : UCL ; Portland, Or. : Cavendish, 2004.
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x, 214 p. ; 24 cm.

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    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • INTRODUCTION
    • Theorising place / Stephan Feuchtwang
    • PART 1 : URBAN PLACES
    • Mapping 'chaos': the Dong Xi Fo feuds of Quanzhou, 1644-1839 / Wang Mingming
    • Breathing new life into Beijing culture: new 'traditional' public spaces and the Chaoyang neighbourhood Yangge associations / Florence Graezer
    • Establishing 'home' away from home: Chinese migrants in the industrial transformation of Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong / Graham Johnson
    • Traditional territories in a contemporary city: agency and policy in the preservation of hereditary rights / Elizabeth Lominska Johnson
    • PART 2 : RURAL PLACES
    • 'The place where the age wouldn't go' and 'the place where the sage was born': mutual definitions of place in Shandong and Heilongjiang / Zhao Bingxiang
    • Hmong places and locality / Nicholas Tapp
    • Senses of local place and the temples of West Hunan / Mary Rack
    • Curves and the urbanisation of Meifa village / Stephan Feuchtwang
    • AFTERWORD
    • Space and time / Laurie Kain Hart.
    ISBN
    1844720101
    LCCN
    2004304394
    OCLC
    53460406
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