Combining social, political, and cultural history, this book examines the contestation over space, history, and power in the late Qing and Republican-era reconstruction of the ancient capital of Suzhou as a modern city. Located fifty miles west of Shanghai, Suzhou has been celebrated throughout Asia as a cynosure of Chinese urbanity and economic plenty for a thousand years. With the city's 1895 opening as a treaty port, businessmen and state officials began to draw on Western urban planning in order to bolster Chinese political and economic power against Japanese encroachment. As a result, both Suzhou as a whole and individual components of the cityscape developed new significance according to a calculus of commerce and nationalism. Japanese monks and travelers, Chinese officials, local people, and others competed to claim Suzhou’s streets, state institutions, historic monuments, and temples, and thereby to define the course of Suzhou’s and greater China’s modernity.
"The book is a wonderfully thoughtful piece. Rooted in archival research employing a wide variety of Chinese and Japanese sources, and informed by contemporary analyses of urban spaces and their impact on culture, it adds greatly to a growing, and fascinating, corpus of scholarship on urban change in China." - Sacred Heart University
"Carroll's work masterfully presents the complexity of urban change in China's living 'city of antiquities.' The work will be well received by anyone interested in a broad range of topics in Chinese history, including urban studies, art history, cultural studies, Sino-Japanese relations, and architecture, as well as general Chinese social and cultural history. It will also be noteworthy for scholars working on the cultural impact of development in other parts of the world." - Vanderbilt University
"This marvelously rich book describes the ways in which ideas of "tradition" and "modernity" are mapped onto symbolic spaces, such as historical sites (whose presence and preservation are re-imagined as essential to a modern republic) and new roads (intended for industry, but instead co-opted by decadent leisure practices). As the author shows us, in early twentieth-century Suzhou, "tradition" became an object of consumption, while the much sought after "modernity" proved chimerical and multifarious. The author is to be commended for his attention to contradiction, paradox, and irony, as well as his deft use of primary sources." - Johns Hopkins University and author of Building Culture in Early Qing Yangzhou (Stanford University Press, 2003)
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"The book is a wonderfully thoughtful piece. Rooted in archival research employing a wide variety of Chinese and Japanese sources, and informed by contemporary analyses of urban spaces and their impact on culture, it adds greatly to a growing, and fascinating, corpus of scholarship on urban change in China." - Sacred Heart University
"Carroll's work masterfully presents the complexity of urban change in China's living 'city of antiquities.' The work will be well received by anyone interested in a broad range of topics in Chinese history, including urban studies, art history, cultural studies, Sino-Japanese relations, and architecture, as well as general Chinese social and cultural history. It will also be noteworthy for scholars working on the cultural impact of development in other parts of the world." - Vanderbilt University
"This marvelously rich book describes the ways in which ideas of "tradition" and "modernity" are mapped onto symbolic spaces, such as historical sites (whose presence and preservation are re-imagined as essential to a modern republic) and new roads (intended for industry, but instead co-opted by decadent leisure practices). As the author shows us, in early twentieth-century Suzhou, "tradition" became an object of consumption, while the much sought after "modernity" proved chimerical and multifarious. The author is to be commended for his attention to contradiction, paradox, and irony, as well as his deft use of primary sources." - Johns Hopkins University and author of Building Culture in Early Qing Yangzhou (Stanford University Press, 2003)
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