Samuel Y. Liang

Mapping Modernity in Shanghai (eBook, ePUB)

Space, Gender, and Visual Culture in the Sojourners' City, 1853-98

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

By mapping the city's native spaces of leisure and everyday life, this book reconstructs the spatial, material, and gender modernity of nineteenth-century Shanghai, giving the reader a window into the social life of late imperial China.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136974434
• Artikelnr.: 43074933

Autorenporträt

Samuel Y. Liang is Assistant Professor of the Humanities at Utah Valley University, USA

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Fluid Tradition
Splintered Modernity 2. The Convergence of Writing and Commerce 3. Ephemeral Households
Marvelous Things 4. The Meeting of Courtyard and Street 5. Ultimate Ingenuity
Amorphous Crowds 6. The Mingling of Magnates and Masses Conclusion