Civilizing Chengdu

Stapleton, Kristin

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“…Ben Stapleton!' 123 On returning to his section, Arthur was warned by an angry corporal that he would be shot if he broke ranks again. Later, Arthur learned that the 58th were based nearby at Achiet-le-Grand.…”

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Brothering

2021

Brothers in the Great War

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BrotheringTo celebrate his eighteenth birthday, Geoff Falk planned to visit relatives in Liverpool. Clouding his anticipated enjoyment was his 'unhappiness' that his older brother, Cecil, could not share the day with him. Cecil, an officer serving on the Balkan front, reassured his sibling that there was no need to rein in his pleasure. Such gestures were unnecessary, given his confidence in the enduring strength of their bond. 'You & I miss one another very much,' he wrote, 'we have always been equals & always shall be.' 1 Other accounts too attest not only to the depth of brotherly bonds but also to their significance as loving relationships. Given the relative youth of serving men in the Great War, established ties to siblings held greater emotional salience. Close relationships among adult siblings can be traced back to their childhood experiences. 2 Patterns established in childhood and adolescence extended into wartime behaviours. 3 Brotherly relationships appear to have been significant, providing emotional and practical sustenance. By examining the personal narratives of men who had a close, affectionate bond with at least one male sibling, this chapter explores how men experienced and expressed brotherly love and brothering. Comparing pre-war childhood and wartime accounts of brotherly 'love' enables us to trace how emotional practices and values instilled at an early age continued into adulthood. Not only a brother but a good friendAccounts of close fraternal relationships often suffer from a double absence: the absence of appropriate language to describe these bonds

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2021

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“…12 In Chengdu (Ch'eng-tu), capital of the south-western province of Sichuan, a cohort of young planners insisted on the primacy of social reform over the physical reconstruction preferred by more conservative leaders. Determined to combine rational, scientific urban reform with the pursuit of social justice, 13 they aimed to discipline and to improve the crowd and its street culture -in commerce and customs, entertainments and ceremonies -as a means of regenerating the city. 14 In each case, the objective was to fit the masses for access to modern elite culture in its varying forms: there was no universal assumption that high and low culture would and should remain divided.…”

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National city, human city: the reimagining and revitalization of Beiping, 1928–37

Dryburgh

2005

Urban History

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The reimagining of Beiping – now ‘Beijing’ – reveals the limits of community in early twentieth-century China. Despite the centrality of the crowd to the imagining, construction and management of other Chinese cities, and despite an emerging local advocacy of ‘revitalization’ for Beiping and the Beiping crowd, literary and official understandings of the city that marginalized the mass of Beiping residents remained dominant, highlighting the tension between symbol and community in the construction of place and nation.

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Historical Continuities in Social Assistance in China, 1911–2011

Hammond

2016

Governance, Domestic Change, and Social Policy in China

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Civilizing Chengdu

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National city, human city: the reimagining and revitalization of Beiping, 1928–37

Historical Continuities in Social Assistance in China, 1911–2011

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