Introduction 1
Chapter 1: The Thirteen Factories: An Architecture of Sino-Western Collaboration and Confrontation
Situation
Origins and Materials
Façades: Changes and Continuities
Plans and Room Use
Everyday Life: Inhabitants and Rituals
The Pearl River: Transportation, Habitation, and Linkages
Connecting Fabric: The Square, the Street, and Regulating Relations
Violated Boundaries and the Factory as Fortress
Turf Disputes
Tensions Boil, Crowds Erupt
Defensible Space and Its Final Vanity
Chapter 2: Westerners Draw Their Boundaries: Insular Living and Its Exceptions
Modest Living and Work South of the River: Honam
A New Era but a Separate Peace: Dwelling on Shamian
Presenting a European Face: A Survey of Houses on Shamian,1870–1900
Western Official and Commercial Buildings Outside Shamian
Domesticity and Division: Inside the Foreign House and Yard, 1865–1900
A Problem of Translation: Missionaries Confront (and Inhabit) the City
Neighboring Sparks, Local Flames: Violence and Space in the 1880s
The Later Nineteenth Century and the Two Worlds of Guangzhou
Chapter 3: Dining, Shopping, Bombarding, and Touring: Foreigners in the Traditional City
Guests and Customers: “Invited” Foreigners in the Early Nineteenth Century
Visiting a Buddhist Monastery
Flower Grounds
Invitation to a Chop-stick Dinner
The Impulse to Buy
The City Question: Entry and Mapping in the Third Quarter of the Nineteenth Century
Tourism at the Sunset of Imperial Guangzhou: Institutions, Ideologies, and Power
The Press of the Crowd
The “Regulation” Sites
Urban Fabric and Western Perceptions
Chapter 4: Xin Guangzhou : Architecture, Foreigners, and Modernity in the Early Twentieth Century
New Business, New Buildings, and Cross-Cultural Controversy in Twentieth-Century Shamian
Learning and Living Together: Foreign Philanthropic Institutions
Xin Guangzhou : Foreigners and the Modernization of Canton
Civic Visions: The Sights of Republican Guangzhou
Chapter 5: Conclusion
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
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