China's Contested Capital: Architecture, Ritual, and Response in Nanjing

by Charles D. Musgrove

When the Chinese Nationalist Party nominally reunified the country in 1928, Chiang Kai-shek and other party leaders insisted that Nanjing was better suited than Beijing to serve as its capital. For the next decade, until the Japanese invasion in 1937, Nanjing was the "model capital" of Nationalist China, the center of not just a new regime, but also a new modern outlook in a China destined to reclaim its place at the forefront of nations. Interesting...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824836286
• ISBN13: 9780824836283
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"