By Madeleine Yue Dong
ISBN-10: 0520230507
ISBN-13: 9780520230507
ISBN-10: 0585456321
ISBN-13: 9780585456324
Outdated Beijing has develop into a subject matter of growing to be fascination in modern China because the Nineteen Eighties. whereas actual remnants from the prior are being bulldozed each day to create space for glass-walled skyscrapers and towering condominium constructions, nostalgia for the previous urban is booming. Madeleine Yue Dong deals the 1st finished heritage of Republican Beijing, studying how the capital bought its id as a consummately "traditional" chinese language city.For citizens of Beijing, the center of town lay within the labor-intensive actions of "recycling," a chief mode of fabric and cultural construction and circulate that got here to represent Republican Beijing. An omnipresent means of recycling and re-use unified Beijing's fragmented and stratified markets into one stream method. those fabric practices evoked an air of nostalgia that permeated lifestyle. sarcastically, the "old Beijing" towards which this nostalgia used to be directed used to be now not the imperial capital of the previous, however the residing Republican urban. Such nostalgia towards the current, the writer argues, was once no longer an empty sentiment, yet a vital attribute of chinese language modernity.
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