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Exotic Commodities Modern Objects and Everyday Life in China

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ISBN-10: 0231141165

ISBN-13: 9780231141161

Edition: 2007

Authors: Frank Dik�tter, Frank Dik�tter, Frank Dikötter

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Exotic Commoditiesis the first book to chart the consumption and spread of foreign goods in China from the mid-nineteenth century to the advent of communism in 1949. Richly illustrated and revealing, this volume recounts how exotic commodities were acquired and adapted in a country commonly believed to have remained "hostile toward alien things" during the industrial era. China was not immune to global trends that prized the modern goods of "civilized" nations. Foreign imports were enthusiastically embraced by both the upper and lower classes and rapidly woven into the fabric of everyday life, often in inventive ways. Scarves, skirts, blouses, and corsets were combined with traditional…    
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Book details

List price: $80.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 3/27/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Size: 0.39" wide x 0.28" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 7.084

Frank Dik�tter is Chair Professor of Humanities at the University of Hong Kong. Before moving to Asia in 2006, he was Professor of the Modern History of China at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He has published nine books about the history of China, including Mao's Great Famine, which won the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction in 2011.http://www.frankdikotter.com/

Acknowledgements
Illustrations and Credits
Conventions
Introduction
Material culture in modern China
The fictions of 'authenticity', 'hybridity' and 'acculturation'
The limits of 'emulation', 'consumption' and 'representation'
Things and people
Worship of the tangible
The sources
Dissemination: Networks and Materials
The Domestication of Foreign Goods
Exotic commodities in late imperial China
Export commodities in late imperial China
Copy culture and the Movement for National Goods
The Dissemination of New Objects
Retailing the modern
Recycling the modern
Exhibiting the modern
The graphic revolution
From Water to Wheel
Motors in waterland
Highway to heaven
Rickshaw China
On your bicycle
Cars to die for
The ubiquitous omnibus
Riots at the station
Flying chariots
Changing Cityscanes
Cities
Factories
Schools
Offices
Electricity, Telephone and Water
A nation electrified
Water from the dragon's mouth
Electric words, wonder of all wonders
Appropriation: People and Objects
Dwelling
The permeable house survives
The solid house spreads
A glass world
Locking up
Changing interiors
Kerosene, torchbearer of modernity
The hidden powers of domestic objects
Clothing and Grooming
Cotton, the fabric of everyday life
From bound feet to leather shoes
A whiff of modernity
Trinkets for the poor, watches for the rich
Eating and Drinking
Eating modernity
Eating out
Drinking cultures
Seeing and Listening
The camera and the second I
Magic lanterns and moving pictures
Singing machines: the gramophone and the radio
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index