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.
發表於2024-05-23
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評分凡是這類書,我都眼巴巴的等著想看,想看看彆人是怎麼講述一個城市的,特彆是還會談到一個城市底層的一麵,更帶動我的興趣。現在的曆史多是被某些視角固定下來的,那些沒法發聲的人和事,往往靜靜的被曆史的灰塵淹沒。去翻看的時候,卻發現那裏纔更生動更有味,而且隱隱約約的...
評分凡是這類書,我都眼巴巴的等著想看,想看看彆人是怎麼講述一個城市的,特彆是還會談到一個城市底層的一麵,更帶動我的興趣。現在的曆史多是被某些視角固定下來的,那些沒法發聲的人和事,往往靜靜的被曆史的灰塵淹沒。去翻看的時候,卻發現那裏纔更生動更有味,而且隱隱約約的...
評分凡是這類書,我都眼巴巴的等著想看,想看看彆人是怎麼講述一個城市的,特彆是還會談到一個城市底層的一麵,更帶動我的興趣。現在的曆史多是被某些視角固定下來的,那些沒法發聲的人和事,往往靜靜的被曆史的灰塵淹沒。去翻看的時候,卻發現那裏纔更生動更有味,而且隱隱約約的...
圖書標籤: 城市史 北京 海外中國研究 近代史 城市 曆史學 曆史 城市研究
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。
評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
評分only preface. daily life in republican time. need to read the Chinese version.
評分only preface. daily life in republican time. need to read the Chinese version.
評分“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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