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This book concerns the Beijing Hutong and changing perceptions of space, of social relations and of self, as processes of urban redevelopment remove Hutong dwellers from their traditional homes to new high-rise apartments. It addresses questions of how space is humanly built and transformed, classified and differentiated, and most importantly how space is perceived and experienced. This study elaborates and expands Lefebvre's "trialectic" of space on a theoretical level. The ethnography presented is a conversation with Tim Ingold's argument about "empty space". This research employs the ethno.

Table of Contents:

• Foreword: Qingqing and Mr. Yang, a Social Anthropology; Dramatis Personae: The Main Characters Met in the Book; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1: Preparing for the Fieldwork; 1.1 Initial Questions; 1.2 Why Hutong?; 1.3 Fieldwork Methods; 1.4 Theoretical Origins; 1.4.1 Anthropology of China; 1.4.2 Anthropology of Space; 1.5 Chapter Links: Outcomes; References; Chapter 2: 'Trembling in Another's Fulfilment': The Space of the Hutong and Its Significance to Mr. Yang; 2.1 Emotional Link with Land; 2.2 Emotional Links with the Items Grow Up from the Land Within One's Living Area.
• 2.3 Differentiated Familiarity (Chaxu Familiarity)2.4 Emotional Integration with the Social Network; 2.5 What the City Is and Will Be; 2.6 Bricks and Stones or Mentality and Emotion?; References; Chapter 3: 'Peace in the Noise': Harmony, Face and Reciprocity in Hutong Spaces; 3.1 What Is 'Siheyuan'?; 3.2 Life in an Independent Courtyard; 3.3 The Concept of 'Home'; 3.4 Mingled Reciprocation at Dazayuan; 3.5 A Harmonised Way of Life; References; Chapter 4: 'Enter the Solemnity': Social Space in the High-Rise Apartment; 4.1 On First Moving In; 4.2 Loose Compound; 4.3 Life Within the Building.
• 4.4 Lack of Public Space for Interacting4.5 A Fresh Stream in the Compound; Chapter 5: 'Things Have Been Socialised': The Variable Allocations of Value in the City; 5.1 The Value of Laowujian ('Old Things') to Mr. Yang; 5.2 Gaining Face Through a Thing's Physical Existence; 5.3 Make a Life with Old Things; 5.4 Language and Ways of Expression as 'Old'; 5.5 The Name of a Place as Having Value; 5.6 The Contextual Value of 'Old Things'; 5.7 How Old Things Are Dealt Within the Hutong and the High-Rise Apartment; 5.8 Valuing the "Old"; Reference.
• Chapter 6: 'Out of Space, Out of Speech': The Relationship Between Language and Space in the City6.1 Houhai Park; 6.2 Dinner with Two Families: Hotpot; 6.3 TV Time with Xiaojun; 6.4 A Casual Chat with Mr. Yang: How This Li-Based Space Has Been Created; 6.5 Strict Boundaries in Between Spaces; 6.6 Space Classification; 6.7 The Communal Area; 6.8 Inside Mrs. Li's Apartment; 6.9 "High Culture" vs "Low Culture"; References; Chapter 7: 'Soft and Hard, Bendy and Fixed, Vase and Funnel': The Experience and Conceptualization of Living Space in the City; 7.1 The Bamboo Curtain on the Door.
• 7.2 A Transparent Community7.3 How Residents Individualise the Public Space; 7.4 Stretchable Space; 7.5 Solid Space; 7.6 Meaning of Home; References; Chapter 8: 'Urbanised by Specialised': The Decrease in 'Overlapping Space' in the City; 8.1 Specialised City; 8.2 Community-Based Compounds; 8.3 The Way of Being Polite Within the Hutong Courtyard; 8.4 The Individually Based Compound; 8.5 Overlapping Space; 8.6 Consequences of Overlapping Spaces; 8.7 Challenging the Concept of "Human Ecology"; References; Chapter 9: A Conversation with Henri Lefebvre-The Dynamics of Space; Reference.

Author/Creator:

Yang, Qingqing , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Space modernization and social interaction: a comparative study of living space in Beijing [by Yang, Q.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Space Modernization and Social Interaction : A Comparative Study of Living Space in Beijing [by Yang, Q.] (Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, ©2014 — ISBN 9783662443484)

Subjects:

Ethnology — China — Beijing

Ethnology

China — Beijing

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.
Description based on: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed October 7, 2014).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 152 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

GN635.C5 Y364 2014eb

ISBNs:

9783662443491 (electronic bk.)
366244349X (electronic bk.)
3662443481
9783662443484
9783662443484 [Invalid]

Other Standard Numbers:

Digital Object Identifier: 10.1007/978-3-662-44349-1

OCLC Numbers:

892485895