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Article: Materializing a form of urban governance: when street building intersected with city building in Republican Canton (Guangzhou), China

TitleMaterializing a form of urban governance: when street building intersected with city building in Republican Canton (Guangzhou), China
Authors
KeywordsChina
governance
Infrastructure
materiality
street
urbanization
Issue Date2017
PublisherRoutledge. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/07341512.asp
Citation
History and Technology, 2017, v. 33 n. 2, p. 153-174 How to Cite?
AbstractIn the early twentieth-century China, the imperial court collapsed and modern cities emerged. How did a new form of governance become materialized, conceivable, and understandable? This article presents a case study of street building Canton (present-day Guangzhou) in the 1920s and 1930s. Drawing on discussions of material power, infrastructures, and governmentality, it attends to the role of material artifacts in creating the modern Chinese city. In particular, it illustrates the entangled emergence and development of modern streets and urban governance, a new form of governance essential to fashioning the Chinese nation-state and Chinese modernity. The unstable, evolving process of creating a new built environment provided specific, material reference points for various stakeholders to imagine and think about the modern city as governable space. This case analysis suggests an alternative perspective to urban history in China, and contributes to the broader discussion on the symbiotic relationship between urban politics and infrastructure.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/243969
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2023 Impact Factor: 1.0
2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.202
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dc.contributor.authorZhang, J-
dc.date.accessioned2017-08-25T03:01:54Z-
dc.date.available2017-08-25T03:01:54Z-
dc.date.issued2017-
dc.identifier.citationHistory and Technology, 2017, v. 33 n. 2, p. 153-174-
dc.identifier.issn0734-1512-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/243969-
dc.description.abstractIn the early twentieth-century China, the imperial court collapsed and modern cities emerged. How did a new form of governance become materialized, conceivable, and understandable? This article presents a case study of street building Canton (present-day Guangzhou) in the 1920s and 1930s. Drawing on discussions of material power, infrastructures, and governmentality, it attends to the role of material artifacts in creating the modern Chinese city. In particular, it illustrates the entangled emergence and development of modern streets and urban governance, a new form of governance essential to fashioning the Chinese nation-state and Chinese modernity. The unstable, evolving process of creating a new built environment provided specific, material reference points for various stakeholders to imagine and think about the modern city as governable space. This case analysis suggests an alternative perspective to urban history in China, and contributes to the broader discussion on the symbiotic relationship between urban politics and infrastructure.-
dc.languageeng-
dc.publisherRoutledge. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/07341512.asp-
dc.relation.ispartofHistory and Technology-
dc.rightsThis is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in History and Technology on 05 Jul 2017, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07341512.2017.1348440-
dc.subjectChina-
dc.subjectgovernance-
dc.subjectInfrastructure-
dc.subjectmateriality-
dc.subjectstreet-
dc.subjecturbanization-
dc.titleMaterializing a form of urban governance: when street building intersected with city building in Republican Canton (Guangzhou), China-
dc.typeArticle-
dc.identifier.emailZhang, J: jzhang02@hku.hk-
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dc.description.naturepostprint-
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/07341512.2017.1348440-
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dc.identifier.hkuros274353-
dc.identifier.volume33-
dc.identifier.issue2-
dc.identifier.spage153-
dc.identifier.epage174-
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dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom-
dc.identifier.issnl0734-1512-

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