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Civilizing Chengdu
''Civilizing Chengdu: Chinese Urban Reform, 1895–1937'' is a 2000 non-fiction book by Kristin Eileen Stapleton (Chinese name: 司昆仑 ''Sī Kūnlún''), published by Harvard University Press. The majority of the book covers how the Late Qing reforms and the City Administration Movement, the first from the Qing Dynasty and covering three chapters and the latter of the early Republic of China and covering one chapter, changed Chengdu.Belsky, p. 329. These efforts were done to develop a city perceived as backwards.Dray-Novey, p. 246. Hanchao Lu () of the Georgia Institute of Technology stated that this was the first English-language "analytical "biography"" of Chengdu.Lu, p. 949. Background Gazeteers, guidebooks, and newspapers from times after 1900 and covering the historical era were used for sourcing. The author used sources stored in the First Historical Archive of China, Second Historical Archive of China, Sichuan's provincial archives, and Chengdu's prefectural archives ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harvard University Press
Harvard University Press (HUP) is an academic publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University. It is a member of the Association of University Presses. Its director since 2017 is George Andreou. The press maintains offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts, near Harvard Square, and in London, England. The press co-founded the distributor TriLiteral LLC with MIT Press and Yale University Press. TriLiteral was sold to LSC Communications in 2018. Notable authors published by HUP include Eudora Welty, Walter Benjamin, E. O. Wilson, John Rawls, Emily Dickinson, Stephen Jay Gould, Helen Vendler, Carol Gilligan, Amartya Sen, David Blight, Martha Nussbaum, and Thomas Piketty. The Display Room in Harvard Square, dedicated to selling HUP publications, closed on June 17, 2009. Related publishers, imprints, and series HUP owns the Belknap Press imprint (trade name), imprint, which it inaugurated in May 1954 with the publication of the ''Harvard Guide to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fact In Fiction
''Fact in Fiction: 1920s China and Ba Jin's Family'' is a 2016 non-fiction book by Kristin Eileen Stapleton (Chinese name: 司昆仑 ''Sī Kūnlún''), published by Stanford University Press. It concerns historiographical aspects about '' The Family'' by Ba Jin, including Chengdu during the 20th century and the life of the author.Torrance, p. 157. The author stated that she wanted to explain what Chengdu was like in real life in Ba Jin's time and how that influenced his novel.Kwa, p. 127. Contents Each of the chapters covers a theme, related to an occurrence in the novel or to a character. There are seven chapters in total. Chapter 1, "Mingfeng: The Life of a Slave Girl," discusses the character Mingfeng, who is in an inferior position among the characters. It includes an English translation of a document titled "Slave Girl Contract from Chengdu, 1919". Chapter 3 examines the census of Chengdu that was done in 1909.Torrance, p. 159. There is no list of Chinese characters in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Books About Chengdu
A book is a structured presentation of recorded information, primarily verbal and graphical, through a medium. Originally physical, electronic books and audiobooks are now existent. Physical books are objects that contain printed material, mostly of writing and images. Modern books are typically composed of many pages Bookbinding, bound together and protected by a Book cover, cover, what is known as the ''codex'' format; older formats include the scroll and the Clay tablet, tablet. As a conceptual object, a ''book'' often refers to a written work of substantial length by one or more authors, which may also be distributed digitally as an electronic book (ebook). These kinds of works can be broadly Library classification, classified into fiction (containing invented content, often narratives) and non-fiction (containing content intended as factual truth). But a physical book may not contain a written work: for example, it may contain ''only'' drawings, engravings, photographs, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
