An Urban History of China by Toby Lincoln HARDBACK 9781107196421

An Urban History of China\nby Toby Lincoln\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Toby Lincoln\nTitle: An Urban History of China\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Asian history\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press\nPublication year: 2021\nISBN-13: 9781107196421\nISBN-10: 1107196426\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nIn this accessible new study, Toby Lincoln offers the first history of Chinese cities from their origins to the present. Despite being an agricultural society for thousands of years, China had an imperial urban civilization. Over the last century, this urban civilization has been transformed into the world''s largest modern urban society. Throughout their long history, Chinese cities have been shaped by interactions with those around the world, and the story of urban Ch.