Mapping Modernity in Shanghai : Space, Gender, and Visual Culture in the Sojourners' City, 1853-98

ISBN-13: 9780415631167 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 240 str.

Samuel Y. Liang

Opis

By mapping the city's native spaces of leisure & everyday life, this book reconstructs the spatial, material, & gender modernity of 19th century Shanghai, giving the reader a window into the social life of late imperial China. This book argues that modernity first arrived in late 19th century Shanghai via a new spatial configuration.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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