China's Contested Capital: Architecture, Ritual, and Response in Nanjing by Charles D. Musgrove

China's Contested Capital: Architecture, Ritual, and Response in Nanjing

Spatial Habitus: Making and Meaning in Asia's Architecture

Charles D. Musgrove

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When the Chinese Nationalist Party nominally reunified the country in 1928, Chiang Kai-shek and other party leaders insisted that Nanjing was better suited than Beijing to serve as its capital. For the next decade, until the Japanese invasion in 1...

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