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1 online resource (x, 214 pages) |
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INTRODUCTION -- Theorising place / Stephan Feuchtwang -- PART 1 : URBAN PLACES -- Mapping 'chaos': the Dong Xi Fo feuds of Quanzhou, 1644-1839 / Wang Mingming -- Breathing new life into Beijing culture: new 'traditional' public spaces and the Chaoyang neighbourhood Yangge associations / Florence Graezer -- Establishing 'home' away from home: Chinese migrants in the industrial transformation of Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong / Graham Johnson -- Traditional territories in a contemporary city: agency and policy in the preservation of hereditary rights / Elizabeth Lominska Johnson -- PART 2 : RURAL PLACES -- 'The place where the age wouldn't go' and 'the place where the sage was born': mutual definitions of place in Shandong and Heilongjiang / Zhao Bingxiang -- Hmong places and locality / Nicholas Tapp -- Senses of local place and the temples of West Hunan / Mary Rack -- Curves and the urbanisation of Meifa village / Stephan Feuchtwang -- AFTERWORD -- Space and time / Laurie Kain Hart |
| Summary |
To make a place is to create a location where its creators can feel they belong. Processes of place-making are still very much ongoing today. Geographers, sociologists, political scientists and philosophers of advanced capitalism have said that place is a localisation of the global. However, the creation of a place is not legible from such grand perspectives. It is also much more creative than can be predicted by translating large-scale processes into local cultures. Anthropologists have been sensitive to the intimate, tragic and lyrical senses of local place. But their theorising has |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Group identity -- China
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Globalization -- Social aspects -- China
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Spatial behavior -- China
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Globalization -- Social aspects
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Group identity
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Social conditions
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Spatial behavior
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Sozialer Wandel
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Globalisierung
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Sozialraum
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China -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024178
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China
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China
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Feuchtwang, Stephan
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| LC no. |
2004304394 |
| ISBN |
9781135393564 |
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1135393567 |
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1135393559 |
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9781135393557 |
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1282379224 |
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9781282379220 |
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9786612379222 |
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6612379227 |
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