| Autor: |
Buylaert, Frederik, van der Meulen, Jim, Verhoeven, Gerrit, Vermoesen, Reinoud, Logan, Tracey |
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Urban History; May2023, Vol. 50 Issue 2, p356-363, 8p |
| Abstrakt: |
When, in 1928, the Nationalist government relocated China's capital to Nanjing, Beijing's municipal authority began to present the city as a Chinese cultural capital and tourist attraction, highlighting its imperial past and establishing camels as part of that heritage. Although the COVID-19 pandemic is far from history, its devastating effects have inspired copious scholarship among urban historians in 2022. But in their 'Stones and slaves: labour, race and spatial exclusion in colonial Santo Domingo' ( I Urban History i , 49 (2022) 746-70), José R. Núñez Collado and Joanna Merwood-Salisbury make a compelling argument for why the government should. Her sources were field investigative reports produced in the 1930s for Nanjing's Central School of Governance, alongside official publications including I City Administration Weekly i , which proved a useful source of contemporary government propaganda selling city-wide improvements as a "public obligation". [Extracted from the article] |
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