Seeking a Future for the Past
Seeking a Future for the Past: Space, Power, and Heritage in a Chinese City examines the complexities and changing sociopolitical dynamics of urban renewal in contemporary China. Drawing on ten years of ethnographic fieldwork in the northeastern Chinese city of Qingdao, the book tells the story of t...
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University of Michigan Press
2024
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| description | Seeking a Future for the Past: Space, Power, and Heritage in a Chinese City examines the complexities and changing sociopolitical dynamics of urban renewal in contemporary China. Drawing on ten years of ethnographic fieldwork in the northeastern Chinese city of Qingdao, the book tells the story of the slow, fragmented, and contentious transformation of Dabaodao—an area in the city’s former colonial center—from a place of common homes occupied by the urban poor into a showcase of architectural heritage and site for tourism and consumption. The ethnography provides a nuanced account of the diverse experiences and views of a range of groups involved in shaping, and being shaped, by the urban renewal process—local residents, migrant workers, preservationists, planners, and government officials—foregrounding the voices and experiences of marginal groups, such as migrants in the city. Unpacking structural reasons for urban developmental impasses, it paints a nuanced local picture of urban governance and political practice in contemporary urban China. Seeking a Future for the Past also weighs the positives and negatives of heritage preservation and scrutinizes the meanings and effects of “preservation” on diverse social actors. By zeroing in on the seemingly contradictory yet coexisting processes of urban stagnation and urban destruction, the book reveals the multifaceted challenges that China faces in reforming its urbanization practices and, ultimately, in managing its urban future. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1326992025-03-21T15:53:03Z Seeking a Future for the Past Demgenski, Philipp China, Qingdao, Dabaodao, Liyuan, Germany, colonial history, urban renewal, inner-city redevelopment, spatial transformation in China, China's urban future, urban anthropology, urban ethnography, the anthropology of planning, the anthropology of space and place, cultural heritage, colonial heritage, architectural heritage, urban precarity, rural to urban migration in China, urban governance, state-society relations in China, authoritarian state power, marginalized people, migrants, stagnation, ethnography, state-society binary, authoritarian regime, heritagization, urbanization, political economy Seeking a Future for the Past: Space, Power, and Heritage in a Chinese City examines the complexities and changing sociopolitical dynamics of urban renewal in contemporary China. Drawing on ten years of ethnographic fieldwork in the northeastern Chinese city of Qingdao, the book tells the story of the slow, fragmented, and contentious transformation of Dabaodao—an area in the city’s former colonial center—from a place of common homes occupied by the urban poor into a showcase of architectural heritage and site for tourism and consumption. The ethnography provides a nuanced account of the diverse experiences and views of a range of groups involved in shaping, and being shaped, by the urban renewal process—local residents, migrant workers, preservationists, planners, and government officials—foregrounding the voices and experiences of marginal groups, such as migrants in the city. Unpacking structural reasons for urban developmental impasses, it paints a nuanced local picture of urban governance and political practice in contemporary urban China. Seeking a Future for the Past also weighs the positives and negatives of heritage preservation and scrutinizes the meanings and effects of “preservation” on diverse social actors. By zeroing in on the seemingly contradictory yet coexisting processes of urban stagnation and urban destruction, the book reveals the multifaceted challenges that China faces in reforming its urbanization practices and, ultimately, in managing its urban future. 2024-01-12T04:11:23Z 2024-01-12T04:11:23Z 2024-01-11T13:25:57Z 2024 book OCN: 1408978979 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/86605 9780472076376 9780472056378 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/132699 eng China Understandings Today open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/86605/1/9780472903764.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/86605/1/9780472903764.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/86605/1/9780472903764.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/86605/1/9780472903764.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/86605/1/9780472903764.pdf University of Michigan Press 10.3998/mpub.12315869 10.3998/mpub.12315869 b7359529-e5f7-4510-a59f-d7dafa1d4d17 9780472076376 9780472056378 297 open access |
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