Madeleine Y. Dong is a professor of history at the University of Washington in Seattle. Her research concerns the social and cultural history of modern China, focusing on the mid-19th century to the early twentieth century in particular. After her first book, Republican Beijing: The City and Its Histories (University of California Press, 2003), she has published two co-edited volumes, Everyday Modernity in China (University of Washington Press, 2006), and The Modern Girl Around the World (Duke University Press, 2009). She is currently writing a book on the various historical narratives of China's last dynasty, the Qing Dynasty, and she also plans to write a biography of an ordinary Chinese woman whose life experience provides a unique perspective on the drastic changes of modern China.
Old Beijing has become a subject of growing fascination in contemporary China since the 1980s. While physical remnants from the past are being bulldozed every day to make space for glass-walled skyscrapers and towering apartment buildings, nostalgia for the old city is booming. Madeleine Yue Dong offers the first comprehensive history of Republican Beijing, examining how the capital acquired its identity as a consummately "traditional" Chinese city.
For residents of Beijing, the heart of the city lay in the labor-intensive activities of "recycling," a primary mode of material and cultural production and circulation that came to characterize Republican Beijing. An omnipresent process of recycling and re-use unified Beijing's fragmented and stratified markets into one circulation system. These material practices evoked an air of nostalgia that permeated daily life. Paradoxically, the "old Beijing" toward which this nostalgia was directed was not the imperial capital of the past, but the living Republican city. Such nostalgia toward the present, the author argues, was not an empty sentiment, but an essential characteristic of Chinese modernity.
《民國北京城》是第一部對民國時期北京的空間變遷、日常物質生活及其文化錶述做齣係統研究的重要學術專著,與其他研究北京的著作相比,該書的一個獨特視點在於對民國時期北京的普通人群及其日常生活實踐的極大關注。“傳統的迴收”這一概念的獨到應用具有很大的啓示,它對過去...
評分本書研究建立在史謙德和韓書瑞兩本北京專著基礎之上,她瞭解北京的文學讀物是《北京乎》和老捨小說。本書最核心的理論是將傳統的發明改為傳統的迴收利用:將過去的東西改造成對當下有用的東西,例如把紫禁城和皇傢園林改成平民可參觀的旅遊景點,將舊書和古董送到琉璃廠和隆福...
評分原載《讀書》2015年第2期 現代作傢老嚮在《難認識的北平》一文中,這樣描寫30年代的北平,“北平有海一般的偉大,似乎沒有空間與時間的劃分。他能古今並容,新舊兼收,極衝突,極矛盾的現象,在他是處之泰然,半點不調和也沒有”,汽車與馬車齊驅,時髦姑娘與小腳女人同行。...
評分原載《讀書》2015年第2期 現代作傢老嚮在《難認識的北平》一文中,這樣描寫30年代的北平,“北平有海一般的偉大,似乎沒有空間與時間的劃分。他能古今並容,新舊兼收,極衝突,極矛盾的現象,在他是處之泰然,半點不調和也沒有”,汽車與馬車齊驅,時髦姑娘與小腳女人同行。...
評分原載《讀書》2015年第2期 現代作傢老嚮在《難認識的北平》一文中,這樣描寫30年代的北平,“北平有海一般的偉大,似乎沒有空間與時間的劃分。他能古今並容,新舊兼收,極衝突,極矛盾的現象,在他是處之泰然,半點不調和也沒有”,汽車與馬車齊驅,時髦姑娘與小腳女人同行。...
斷斷續續地總算讀完瞭,“recycling”的概念是亮點。前陣子看到好像有中譯本問世的消息,不知道什麼時候能齣來
评分無功無過,有一些亮點(如"Recycling"概念),但似乎未能延伸討論到該有的地步。
评分無功無過,有一些亮點(如"Recycling"概念),但似乎未能延伸討論到該有的地步。
评分斷斷續續地總算讀完瞭,“recycling”的概念是亮點。前陣子看到好像有中譯本問世的消息,不知道什麼時候能齣來
评分“China was not a site of passive reception of modernity as defined by Western experiences but an active participant in its creation.” Recycling, Modernity of Republican Beijing
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