Urban Networks in Ch'ing China and Tokugawa Japan

by Gilbert Rozman

Book Overview

Ch'ing China and Tokugawa Japan were unusually urbanized premodern societies where about one half of the world's urban population lived as late as 1800. Gilbert Rozman has drawn on both sociology and history to develop original methods of illuminating the historical urbanization of China and Japan and to provide a way of relating urban patterns to other characteristics of social structure in premodern societies. The author also hopes to redirect...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691618828
• ISBN13: 9780691618821
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"