Umfang:
1 online resource (258 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781118867556
Anmerkung:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter One The Origins of Shanghai -- Location and meaning -- The Shanghai region -- The city of Shanghai -- Major waterways -- The unique city -- Chapter Two Establishing and Legalising the Foreign Settlements -- Early foreign contact with China -- Attempts to appease Shanghai -- Invasion of Shanghai -- The Treaty of Nanking -- Foreign occupation and land regulations -- The Imperial Maritime Customs, the Shanghai Municipal Council and the Mixed Court -- Extraterritoriality -- Chapter Three Constructing Shanghai, 1843-1899 -- The growth of the Settlement and Settlement life up to the 1850s -- The British Settlement -- The early Bund -- Roads -- The British Consulate -- The American Settlement -- The French Concession -- The Small Swords and the Battle of Muddy Flat -- The Taiping Rebellion -- The growth of the Settlement from the 1860s -- Social life -- Hongkou -- Municipal improvements -- A city emerges -- Chapter Four Becoming a City, 1900-1920 -- A city emerges -- The western suburbs -- The Chinese area -- The central area -- The Bund -- The Public Garden -- Hongkou -- Industrial development -- Social life -- Municipal matters -- The emergence of an architectural dialectic -- Chapter Five Rise and Fall, 1921-1941 -- In the eye of the storm -- The property market -- The Bund -- Construction boom -- Shi Ku Men Li Long -- Residential diversity -- Social Shanghai -- The Japanese Incident -- Turbulent times -- The new Civic Centre and China's first architects -- The start of the Second World War -- The end of an era -- Chapter Six Anti-Design -- The Second World War -- Allied liberation -- Communist liberation -- The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution -- Out of the mire -- Chapter Seven The Giant Awakes -- The nod of approval -- Pudong -- The former settlements
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Seeing through the charade -- Chapter Eight Shanghai's Future -- Notes and References -- Bibliography -- Photo Credits -- Statistics -- Index
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version Denison, Edward Building Shanghai Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,c2006 ISBN 9780470016374
Sprache:
Englisch
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