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First-hand ethnography of indigenous Beijingers living in a time of transformation
An insightful comparison between the ideas of living space among residents of traditional Chinese courtyards or Hutong and residents living in newer high-rise compounds
A fine mixture of ethnographic observations with macro-level analyses of the structures of Chinese urbanism and modernism
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book concerns the Beijing Hutong and changing perceptions of space, of social relations and of self, as processes of urban redevelopment remove Hutong dwellers from their traditional homes to new high-rise apartments. It addresses questions of how space is humanly built and transformed, classified and differentiated, and most importantly how space is perceived and experienced. This study elaborates and expands Lefebvre’s “trialectic” of space on a theoretical level. The ethnography presented is a conversation with Tim Ingold’s argument about “empty space”. This research employs the ethnographic technique of participant-observation to secure a finely textured, detailed and micro-social account of local experience. Then, these micro-social insights are contextualized within macro-social structures of Chinese modernism by speaking to geographical concerns, orientalism and history.
Authors and Affiliations
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School of Ethnology and Sociology, Minzu University of China, Beijing, China
Qingqing Yang
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Space Modernization and Social Interaction
Book Subtitle: A Comparative Study of Living Space in Beijing
Authors: Qingqing Yang
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44349-1
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Publishing Co., Ltd and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-662-44348-4Published: 09 October 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-51580-8Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-44349-1Published: 25 September 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 152
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour
Topics: Anthropology, Sociology, general, Human Geography