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National city, human city: the reimagining and revitalization of Beiping, 1928–37

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2006

MARJORIE DRYBURGH
MARJORIE DRYBURGH
Affiliation:
School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield, S10 2TN
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Abstract

The reimagining of Beiping – now ‘Beijing’ – reveals the limits of community in early twentieth-century China. Despite the centrality of the crowd to the imagining, construction and management of other Chinese cities, and despite an emerging local advocacy of ‘revitalization’ for Beiping and the Beiping crowd, literary and official understandings of the city that marginalized the mass of Beiping residents remained dominant, highlighting the tension between symbol and community in the construction of place and nation.

Type
Research Article
Information
Urban History , Volume 32 , Issue 3 , December 2005 , pp. 500 - 524
Copyright
2005 Cambridge University Press

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