The Making and Selling of Post-Mao Beijing

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ISBN: 9780415320573 | 0415320577
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 7/6/2004

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The Making and Selling of Post-Mao Beijingexplores 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.

Acknowledgements

Illustration Credits and Sources

vii

Chapter 1 Introduction

(24)

Fin de Millénaire Beijing: the making and selling of a world metropolis

(7)

China in the 1990's

(10)

The structure of the book

(7)

Chapter 2 Selling the Chinese City: Theory and Practice of Urban Image Construction

(17)

Place, identity, and the politics of image construction

(2)

Urban image construction in China

(9)

The making and selling of post-Mao Beijing

(5)

Chapter 3 Selling the Past: Nationalism and the Commodification of History at Yuanmingyuan

(52)

The politics of heritage, memory, and identity

(2)

Yuanmingyuan: the rise and fall of the Summer Palace

(20)

Embattled revival: ruins of memory or memory of ruins

(12)

Clashing uses, conflicting views

(8)

Yuanmingyuan: an epilogue

(10)

Chapter 4 The Mailing of Wangfujing: Commercial Redevelopment in the Selling of Places

(54)

Market reforms and consumption

(2)

Wangfujing through history: East meets West

(12)

Towers, malls, and plazas: Wangfujing in the 1990's

108

(16)

The hidden price of redevelopment

124

(17)

A market economy with Chinese characteristics

141

(7)

Chapter 5 Staging the Event-City: Olympics, Anniversaries, and the Politics of City Marketing

148

(60)

Games, rituals, and political spectacle in the selling of places

148

(1)

International events and place marketing

149

(1)

Selling Beijing to the world

150

(11)

China at fifty: national anniversary celebrations, October 1999

161

(36)

Epilogue: New Beijing, great games

197

(11)

Chapter 6 Contested Visions: Resistance, Subversion, and the Politics of Urban Redevelopment

208

(31)

Contentious images

208

(2)

Civil society and the Chinese public sphere

210

(4)

Popular strategies of resistance

214

(11)

Architecture as agent of change: the Beijing national theatre

225

(9)

The politics of urban redevelopment

234

(5)

Chapter 7 The Making and Selling of Beijing

239

(8)

The post-Mao condition of Chinese modernity

241

(3)

Conclusion

244

(3)

Bibliography

247

(19)

Index

266

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