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Understanding the Chinese City

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This book teaches us to read the contemporary Chinese city. Li Shiqiao deftly crafts a new theory of the Chinese city and the dynamics of urbanization by:


• exploring the rise of stories of labour, finance and their hierarchies
• examining how the Chinese city has been shaped by the figuration of the writing system
• analyzing the continuing importance of the family and its barriers of protection against real and imagined dangers
• demonstrating how actual structures bring into visual being...