Old Capital, New City: Social Change and Cultural Evolution in Modern Beijing
by Wang Jianwei
About This Novel
This book places modern Beijing within the framework of modern Chinese history, intercepts a number of typical events, phenomena and texts, and interweaves and presents the complicated picture of Beijing's evolution from a traditional imperial capital to a modern city through a multi-dimensional perspective of politics, culture and society. The specific contents include the initial start of Beijing's urbanization process in the early 20th century, the ideological and action choices of Beijing's intellectual groups in the 1920s when facing the changing times, the political and cultural transformation of Beijing after the establishment of the new Kuomintang regime, the new planning of Beiping's development path in the 1930s, the construction of a new order of consumer space and urban culture, the cultural ecology of Beiping during the Anti-Japanese War, etc.
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