Enclave to urbanity : canton, foreigners, and architecture from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries /
Cross-cultural relations are spatial relations. Enclave to Urbanity is the first book in English that examines how the architecture and the urban landscape of Guangzhou framed the relations between the Western mercantile and missionary communities and the city's predominantly Chinese population...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Hong Kong :
Hong Kong University Press
2016.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1d4tzbx |
| Summary: | Cross-cultural relations are spatial relations. Enclave to Urbanity is the first book in English that examines how the architecture and the urban landscape of Guangzhou framed the relations between the Western mercantile and missionary communities and the city's predominantly Chinese population. The book takes readers through three phases: the Thirteen Factories era from the eighteenth century to the 1850s; the Shamian enclave up to the early twentieth century; and the adoption of Western building techniques throughout the city as its architecture modernized in the early Republic. The discussi. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (281 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-244) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789888313679 9888313673 9789888208876 988820887X |