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dc.contributor.advisorIrvine, John T. S.
dc.contributor.authorYang, Qingqing
dc.coverage.spatial171en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-04-02T10:10:04Z
dc.date.available2013-04-02T10:10:04Z
dc.date.issued2013-06
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/3455
dc.description.abstractThe aim of my PhD project has been to understand how Hutong residents’ ideas about living space have been different from those living in the high-rise compound and how their concept of living space has been changed by both internal and external factors, meaning additional affiliated functions and governmental city-planning. I conducted my fieldwork in Beijing between July 2009 and September 2012: fourteen months in total, interspersed with trips to St. Andrews. I spent ten months from July 2009 to May 2010 living in a Hutong called Xingfu Street (the word translates as ‘happiness’). Then I moved into a high-rise apartment outside the inner city, called Suojiafen Compound, for a further four months. This study concerns space in the contemporary city of Beijing: how space is humanly built and transformed, classified and differentiated, and most importantly how space is perceived and experienced. In the end I have developed the concept “overlapped” space as a way to detect the “personality” of space in both Hutong and high-rise apartment: how they differentiated from each other and how they have been transformed in different way by the residents inside.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of St Andrews
dc.subjectSpaceen_US
dc.subjectHutongen_US
dc.subject.lccHN740.B45Y2
dc.subject.lcshUrban anthropology--China--Beijingen_US
dc.subject.lcshSpace--Social aspects--China--Beijingen_US
dc.subject.lcshCourtyards--Social aspects--China--Beijingen_US
dc.subject.lcshHigh-rise apartment buildings--China--Beijingen_US
dc.subject.lcshPlace attachment--China--Beijingen_US
dc.subject.lcshBeijing (China)--Social life and customsen_US
dc.titleIn and around Beijing with Mr Yang and others : space, modernisation and social interactionen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.contributor.sponsorUK Governmenten_US
dc.contributor.sponsorChinese Governmenten_US
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoralen_US
dc.type.qualificationnamePhD Doctor of Philosophyen_US
dc.publisher.institutionThe University of St Andrewsen_US
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Social Anthropologyen_US


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