The City in the Ancient World. By Mason Hammond and The Pivot of the Four Quarters: A Preliminary Enquiry into the Origins and Character of the Ancient Chinese City. By Paul Wheatley

While scholars have tended to view the city in the Song of Songs negatively, this chapter traces a more ambivalent conceptualization of the city, as a space for conviviality and relationship, as well as a space of boundaries and violence. It draws on urban theory to explore these aspects in turn. Ultimately the Song imagines the city as dependent on and susceptible to its surrounding environment, gendered female according to the conventions of the ancient world, and a potent image of both protection and vulnerability. It offers readings of Song 3:1–5 and 5:2–8, and it ends with a close reading of the urban metaphor in Song 8:8–10.

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The Origin of the Ancient Chinese City: A Comment

Early China ◽

10.1017/s0362502800006970 ◽

1975 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 63-65 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

David N. Keightley

Keyword(s):

Chinese City ◽

The Ancient Chinese

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Urbanism and the Urban Community in Roman Egypt

The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology ◽

10.1177/030751339708300112 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 83 (1) ◽

pp. 199-216

Author(s):

Richard ◽

Robert D. Alston

Keyword(s):

Final Section ◽

Urban Community ◽

Social Groups ◽

Ancient World ◽

Rural Settlements ◽

Social Division ◽

Roman Egypt ◽

The City

Urbanism in the ancient world has been of abiding interest to ancient social and economic historians, but very little is known about the populations of cities. The nature of the papyrological material is such that certain features of communities can be assessed and quantified. We concentrate on the issue of population, considering both the number of people living in the various types of settlements and occupational structures. The results demonstrate essential differences between urban and rural settlements. The final section considers segmentation of the urban community itself. Through analysis of the residence patterns of members of particular social groups, we show that the city displayed a certain amount of social zoning and suggest that the fundamental social division in the city was between the elite and the rest of the population.

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Embodied Masculinity: Sex and Sport in a (Post) Colonial Chinese City

The China Quarterly ◽

10.1017/s0305741007001270 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 190 ◽

pp. 432-450 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Tiantian Zheng

Keyword(s):

The Body ◽

Masculine Identity ◽

Japanese Colonialism ◽

Post Colonial ◽

Chinese City ◽

North East ◽

Bodily Experiences ◽

Identity Based ◽

The One ◽

The City

AbstractThis article examines the historical formation of local masculine identity in the city of Dalian in north-east China. I argue that the experiences of Dalian-Chinese men under Japanese colonialism (1905–45) established a model of masculine identity based on bodily resistance. The article explores Dalian men's encounter with colonialism by comparing two different forms of bodily experience: military calisthenics in Japanese-run schools for Chinese boys and street soccer. On the one hand, military calisthenics impressed Chinese schoolboys with a sense of subjugation focused on the body. Bodily movements were performed under the strict scrutiny of Japanese drill masters and formed an integral part of everyday rituals of obedience. On the other hand, street soccer emerged as a popular and potentially creative activity among Chinese schoolboys. In contrast with the controlled motions of military calisthenics, soccer offered a sense of freedom in its unrestricted and improvised movements. Matches against Japanese teams even more explicitly infused soccer with a spirit of nationalistic resistance. In conclusion, I argue that these bodily experiences are crucial to understanding the historical reformations of Dalian male gender identity.

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The City in the Ancient World

The American Historical Review ◽

10.2307/1854108 ◽

1973 ◽

Vol 78 (5) ◽

pp. 1430

Author(s):

William G. Sinnigen ◽

Mason Hammond

Keyword(s):

Ancient World ◽

The City

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Peluang Pelaksanaan Manajemen Kolaboratif dalam Pengembangan Kawasan Situs Kota Cina sebagai Potensi Pariwisata di Kota Medan

PERSPEKTIF ◽

10.31289/perspektif.v9i2.3295 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 149-167

Author(s):

Biliater Situngkir ◽

Zulkifli Lubis ◽

Abdul Kadir

Keyword(s):

Secondary Data ◽

Research Problem ◽

Qualitative Approach ◽

Primary Data ◽

Collaborative Management ◽

Chinese City ◽

Tourism Sector ◽

The Government ◽

Tourism Potential ◽

The City

The development of the Chinese city site area as a tourism potential in the city of Medan is very important considering the city of Medan does not yet have natural tourism objects that are well managed. The type of study used in this research is descriptive with a qualitative approach where research is carried out to create a tourism development using the Collaborative Management (Co-Management) method. To obtain data and to deepen the implementation of collaborative management, in-depth interviews were conducted with key informants and questionnaires so that the data needed in this study was complete. Data obtained in the field, both secondary data and primary data will be compiled, presented and analyzed with a qualitative approach in the form of exposure which will then be analyzed in accordance with the research problem undertaken. The results of research conducted show that the community has been involved in the development of tourism in the Chinese city site area. But the community is still walking alone in the development of tourism. With the concept of collaborative management, it will certainly be in developing tourism that is more focused and more targeted as desired. From this research it can be concluded that the area of the Chinese city site has a huge opportunity to be developed into the tourism sector that can provide benefits for both the government, the community and the parties involved in developing tourism.

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