Studies On Chinese Modern Cities In The English World (1949-2006)

The development and trends of cities has been being the major issue of evolution of economy, society, politics and culture both in countries and around the world. Chinese history inheritance, global history and experience in urban development and specialty of nowadays have to be taken into account when the Chinese urban development is referred.While participating in some programs, the writer found that the references of researches written by scholars in mainland China are mostly fruits of oversea Chinese, and only few of foreigners. Considering language, time and energetic, the object of this paper is Chinese urban studies during 1949 and 2006 in the English world. On the basis of analysis and synthesis about abundant available material of foreign scholars, the writer here is intent to discover hot topics during the period, trace the logical evolution of Chinese modern urban studies, and exploitate the relationship between the reality of Chinese modern urban development and its studies in the English world. The main contents are as follows:The chapter one is an introduction, including the reason of this topic, summarizes on the practice and theory of urban development, and outlines on the process of material collection and collation.The writer will portray the schema of studies on Chinese modern cities in the English world through material statistics. After analysis of periodicals or magazines, books and main subjects of such research, the writer include two characteristics, hot topics and stages of development about studies on Chinese modern cities in the English world. All contents in this chapter are based on analysis of research results.Four major topics which are urbanization, urban-rural relationship, urban development and government and transformation studies concluded in the last chapter will be discussed in detail in the third chapter. All contents in this chapter are based on academic thoughts, representive views and major perspectives corresponding to last chapter.In the forth chapter, the writer will discuss studies on Chinese modern cities of Chinese scholars in and abroad in a simpler way, and make some comparatives.The end of this paper is a brief summary about all contents of this paper, and in which some points of deficiency and fields for further study are also listed.