Stapleton Kristin. Civilizing Chengdu: Chinese Urban Reform, 1895-1937

Harvard University Asia Center, 2000. — 340 p. — (Harvard East Asian Monographs 186).This work examines the history of urban planning and public administration during modern China's first age of city-centred politics, focusing on the new policies of the late Qing and the city administration movement of the 1930s.