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中国城市史作为一个历久弥新的研究课题,越来越多的学者注意到空间维度的重要性。但在空间维度之外,时间维度作为不证自明的存在被忽视了。柯必德在其最新力作《天堂与现代性之间:建设苏州(1895—1937)》一书中意识到这一点,更加关注苏州城市史研究中的时空维度。他的研究具有三个鲜明特点:一是重视城市空间与地方理论;二是以内发型视角观察苏州的现代转型;三是强调时间的不可或缺性,时间观念与现代性紧密相关。时空维度构成了探究不同城市历史进程的视角,深化了我们对于近代中国城市的理解,这或许应该成为未来城市史研究的新方向。
As an everlasting research topic in Chinese urban history, more and more scholars noticed the importance of spatial dimension. But beyond the dimensions of space, the time dimension is ignored as a self-evident existence. In his latest masterpiece, The Paradigm between Heaven and Modernity: Building Suzhou (1895-1937), Koibid realized this point and pays more attention to the spatio-temporal dimension of Suzhou’s urban history research. His research has three distinctive features: one is to pay attention to urban space and local theory; the other is to observe the modern transformation of Suzhou from the inside perspective; the third is to emphasize the indispensability of time; the concept of time is closely related to modernity. The dimension of time and space constitutes the perspective of exploring the historical process in different cities and deepens our understanding of modern Chinese cities, which may be the new direction for the study of urban history in the future.