Landscape Production, Spatial Domination and National Transformation: the Topography of a Small Northern City
by Liu Xingyu
About This Novel
This book is about the topography of a small northern city. As an attempt to integrate historical anthropology and urban community research, this book draws on the "topography turn" of anthropology's focus on the materiality of the world, and uses the concept of "landscape making" to present the topography of a city through the historical changes of the city's overall space and historical buildings, public spaces and homes, and explores the power, culture and history within it. Based on the historical practice of urban landscape production, different types of spatial domination are summarized: "symbolic domination" in the late empire, "total domination" before reform and opening up, and current "life domination". Finally, China's national transformation in modern times is discussed.
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