A Study On Urban Planning Of Early-modern Guangxi By The Changes Of Provincial Administrative Subjects

“The world is common to all While the method applied.” Since ancient times,people follow certain rules to carry out various activities in a certain area,and when the people to implemented and restrained it,the rudiment of administrative division was born,and its scope became clear with the emergence of the state gradually.Since the establishment of the unified country in the Qin Dynasty,China has been delimited local administrative divisions through the county system.It developed into today’s “province”,“city”,“county” and other local administrative divisions.Among them,the highest level of “province” is an important space unit of national governance territory.It is helpful to better understand the unbalance of the development and vicissitude of Chinese early-modern urban planning to establish the basic ideas and methods of studying the early-modern history of urban planning by taking “province” as the space area.The provincial administrative subject of Guangxi by the changes had a very strong force to the planning and construction because of the provincial administrative power not belong to the “central” one,especially that under the administration of the new Kwangsi clique.Based on the perspective of provincial administrative subject to study the planning history of early-modern Guangxi,it is also helpful to understand the correlation between provincial administration and urban planning,and explore the scientific nature and the regional problem among them,to take history as a mirror,and look for the historical experience and lessons of space governance through the “historical thinking”.Based on the theories of history and urban and rural planning,the study of planning history of early-modern Guangxi is defined as urban space of group cities in Guangxi Province from 1887 to 1949.Chapter 2 to 4 sorts out the fundamentals of urban planning and development before modern times macroscopically,and changing provincial administrative subject,and by which presents the historical evolution and characteristics of urban planning and construction in Guangxi in early-modern times.There are five historical stages of development,they are the modern city formation in the late Qing government(1887-1911),the early construction of Nanning and Yongning by the new Kwangsi clique under the Beiyang Government(1912-1924),the high tide period of planning and construction by the new military of the new Kwangsi clique under Guangzhou National government before the war of resistance against Japanese(1925-1936),the development construction in the rear area during the war of resistance against Japanese aggression under Chongqing National Government through the military transformation of the new Kwangsi clique(1937-1945),and the recovery planning construction after the Anti-Japanese War under Nanjing National Government(1945-1949).In view of the most prominent planning and construction practice during the reign of t new Kwangsi clique Government,it distills out four features,which are reconstruction planning of old cities throughout early-modern times,industrial construction and new urban planning in the early stage of provincial administration,rear construction and urban expansion planning during the Anti-Japanese War,and the rejuvenation construction and experimental city planning and other planning main content and characteristics after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War,proceeding accordingly to the research topic detailed in Chapters 5 to 8,in order to deeply analyze the relationship between the provincial administrative subjects of different natures and urban planning and construction in each historical development stage,and sum up the particularity of the practice of urban planning and construction in early-modern Guangxi.Chapter 9 concludes that the practice of planning and construction of Guangxi under the action of Sun Yat-sen’s thought and military dictatorship,shows several characteristics on the whole,of which are roads construction,cluster thought of provincial administration and the ruling thought of the Three People’s Principles.It is better that strengthen government coordination and develop urban characteristics at the base of provincial thinking.