The Making and Selling of Post-Mao Beijing

ISBN-13: 9780415320573 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 280 str.

Anne-Marie Broudehoux

Opis

Beijing: The Making and Selling of Post-Mao Beijing explores the transformation of the Chinese capital both socially and physically during the final decades of the twentieth century. The author reveals the changing life of the city and its inhabitants and examines the complex and multiple forces at play in this transformation.

Spis treści

1. Introduction2. Selling the Chinese City: Theory and Practice of Urban Imagine Construction3. Selling the Past: Nationalism and the Commodification of History at Yuanmingyuan 4. The Malling of Wangfujing: Commercial Redevelopment in the Selling of Places 5. Staging the Event-City: Olympics, Anniversaries, and the Politics of City Marketing 6. Contested Visions: Resistance, Subversion, and the Politics of Urban Redevelopment 7. The Making and Selling of Beijing Bibliography

O autorze

Anne-Marie Broudehoux