Contents

pp.：  5 – 6

List of Contributors

pp.：  7 – 10

Acknowledgements

pp.：  11 – 12

Chapter One Urban Space in Republican Chinese Cities as Seen Through Cultural Narratives: A Prologue

pp.：  13 – 24

Part One Social Order

pp.：  25 – 26

Chapter Two Changing Spaces and Civilized Weddings in Republican China

pp.：  27 – 56

Chapter Three City-Building, New Life and the ‘Making of the Citizen’ in 1930s Nanchang

pp.：  57 – 76

Chapter Four Wartime Refugee Relief in Chinese Cities and Women’s Political Activism, 1937–1940

pp.：  77 – 104

Part Two Law and Order

pp.：  105 – 106

Chapter Five Unorganized Crime: Forgers, Soldiers, and Shopkeepers in Beijing, 1927, 1928

pp.：  107 – 124

Chapter Six The Ordering of Crime in Republican Beijing from the 1910s to the 1930s

pp.：  125 – 146

Chapter Seven Dangerous Cities: Judicial Authorities, Criminologists, and the Perception of Crime Zones in 1920s and 1930s China

pp.：  147 – 166

Part Three Governance Order

pp.：  167 – 168

Chapter Eight British Concessions and Chinese Cities, 1910s–1930s

pp.：  169 – 208

Chapter Nine Provincializing the City: Canton and the Reshaping of Guangdong Provincial Administration, 1912–1937

pp.：  209 – 234

Chapter Ten Xi’an, 1900–1940: From Isolated Backwater to Resistance Center

pp.：  235 – 286

Index

pp.：  287 – 296