Urbanizing China in War and Peace: The Case of Wuxi County

by Toby Lincoln

Urbanizing China in War and Peace rewrites the history of rural-urban relations in the first half of the twentieth century by arguing that urbanization is a total societal transformation and as important a factor as revolution, nationalism, or modernity in the history of modern China. Linking the global and the local in space and time, China's urbanization was not only driven by industrial capitalism and the expansion of the state, but also shaped...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082484100X
• ISBN13: 9780824841003
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.1"