In the first half of the twentieth century, the city of Wuxi, one hundred kilometers to the West of Shanghai, was
 transformed from a small trading center into the largest industrial city in China outside treaty ports. This paper
 describes how commercial elites and Republican officials shaped the rural and urban built environment and
 argues that by 1937 urbanization had affected the lives of everyone living in the Lower Yangtze Delta. Despite
 the destruction of the Japanese invasion in 1937, Wuxi City and the surro
 unding countryside recovered. In telling this story, I investigate the limits of the Japanese occupation and argue that to truly understand the
 history of urbanization in China it must be considered in the context of both war and peace.
 Toby Lincoln is lecturer in Modern Chinese Urban History at the Centre for Urban History at the University of
 Leicester. After graduating from the University of Oxford with a D.Phil in 2009, he spent a year as a
 postdoctoral associate at the Council on East Asian Studies, Yale University. His first book project focuses on the
 urbanization of the Lower Yangtze delta region in the first half of the twentieth century. Other work addresses
 the relationship between urban development and war, and the history of urban planning in China. His most
 recently published article was “From Riots to Relief: Rice, Local Government and Charities in Occupied Central
 China.” in Food and War in Mid-Twentieth-Century East Asia, edited by Katarzyna J. Cwiertka, Ashgate, 2013,11-28.

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