Shanghai China's Gateway to Modernity

Name: Shanghai China's Gateway to Modernity
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ISBN: 9780804749053

ISBN-10: 0804749051

ISBN-13: 9780804749053

Edition: 2009

Authors: Marie-Claire Bergï¿½re, Janet LloyedAU

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Shanghai today is a thriving, bustling metropolis. But does its avid pursuit of the modern trappings of success truly indicate that it will once again become the shining example of China's commercial and cosmopolitan culture? While history continues to unfold, eminent China scholar Marie-Claire Bergere takes readers back to when Shanghai first opened to the world in 1842 to narrate the city's tumultuous and unique course to the present. Shanghai: China's Gateway to Modernityis the first comprehensive history of Shanghai in any Western language. Divided into four parts, Bergere details Shanghai's beginnings as a treaty port in the mid-nineteenth century; its capitalist boom following the…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 12/29/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 520
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.518
Language: English



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Acknowledgments


Note on Transcription


Chronology


Introduction: Shanghai and Chinese Modernity



The Treaty Port (1842-1911)



Foreigners in the Town (1843-1853)



Local Diplomacy and National Politics (1853-1864)



The Birth of Shanghai Capitalism (1860-1911)



The Kaleidoscope of Shanghai Society



The Concessions as a Model



The 1911 Revolution



The metropolis (1912-1937)



The Golden Age of Shanghai Capitalism (1912-1937)



The Revolutionary Center (1919-1937)



Order and Crime (1927-1937)



Haipai and the Ideal of Modernity



The end of a world (1937-1952)



The War, the Occupation, and the End of International Status



Backward into Revolution (1945-1952)



Shanghai Under Communism



Shanghai in Disgrace under the Maoist Regime



The Rebirth of Shanghai (1990-2000)


Epilogue: Shanghai at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century


Notes


Bibliography


Index