From Elvin & Skinner's Chinese City Between Two Worlds

Posts from This Journal “old town” Tag

• "Boundary tablets mark traces of city development"

  I prefer them in their places, but... https://www.shine.cn/news/metro/1903050661/ You'd see a certain stone, a lintel, a doorframe, a house, a…

• Article

  Here is a Xinmin Weekly article; the author Shen Jialu was at my presentation on February 11. Time to assume 俄罗斯美女学者 as my official designation.…

• "Ghettoizing" the old town

  https://www.shine.cn/news/metro/1902179668/ Chinese press has a way of putting everything on its head, manipulating the concepts and using…