Abstract:
Xi’an is an ancient capital with a metropolitan history of several thousand years. Since modern times, Xi’an has gradually stepped on a road of modernistic development. Along the streets have appeared a series of cityscapes, such as gravel as one of representative metropolitan technologies from abroad and modern business markets. In terms of physical culture, historical relics, and new cultural spaces, writers in the period of the Republic of China sketched the contours of the city’s characteristics of blending of the old and new and fusion of tradition and modernity. They presented Xi’an hard historical course for a modern metropolitan and vigorous life as a city by their description of newemerged cultural spaces, including new schools, book bureaus, bookstores, newspaper houses and the like.
