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Making concessions in Tianjin: heterotopia and Italian colonialism in mainland China
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posted on 2023-06-08, 16:08 authored by Maurizio MarinelliBetween 1860 and 1945, the Chinese port city of Tianjin became the site of up to nine foreign-controlled concessions, functioning side by side. Ruth Rogaski has argued that Tianjin's distinctiveness deserves the appellation ‘hyper-colony’, a term which reflects Tianjin's socio-political intricacies and the multiple colonial discourses of power and space. This article focuses on the representations of the ex-Italian concession in Tianjin, a site which is currently renegotiating its identity between reinvention of the past (1901–45) and property-led regeneration. The article employs the concept of heterotopia to explore ‘semi-colonial’, ‘hyper-colonial’ and ‘globalizing’ representations of Tianjin's built form.
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Urban HistoryISSN
0963-9268Publisher
Cambridge University PressExternal DOI
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3Volume
36Page range
399-425Department affiliated with
- History Publications
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