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4o6 China Review International: Vol. 4, No. 2, Fall 1997 Piper Rae Gaubatz. Beyond the Great Wall: Urban Form and Transformation on the Chinese Frontiers. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. xi, 378 pp. Hardcover $49.50, isbn 0-8047-2399-0. In the 1860S the first British diplomats in Beijing took long walks on the city walls to see the city from above; in the 1980s geographer Piper Rae Gaubatz got a bird's-eye view of frontier cities from the upper floors of their tallest buildings. The shift from the capital to die frontier and from city walls to tall buildings captures much of the fascination of this study. Most work on Chinese urbanism concerns capitals or ports with a long history of Western contact; Beyond the Great Wall describes frontier cities that are much less well known outside China. Trac- ing the evolution of space use in these cities, Gaubatz focuses especially on the half-century of rapid change since 1949. Beyond the Great Wall examines (1) five frontier cities founded by Chinese, (2) five other frontier cities established by non-Chinese peoples, and (3) 233 traditional city-wall shapes of places now in the People's Republic of China, including those of the ten cities
China Review International – University of Hawai'I Press
Published: Mar 30, 1997
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