Shanghai Splendor Economic Sentiments and the Making of Modern China, 1843-1949

Name: Shanghai Splendor Economic Sentiments and the Making of Modern China, 1843-1949
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ISBN: 9780520249714

ISBN-10: 0520249712

ISBN-13: 9780520249714

Edition: 2007

Authors: Wen-hsin Yeh

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Rich with details of everyday life, this multifaceted social and cultural history of China's leading metropolis in the twentieth-century offers a kaleidoscopic view of Shanghai as the major site of Chinese modernization. Engaging the entire span of Shanghai's modern history from the Opium War to the eve of the Communist takeover in 1949, Wen-hsin Yeh traces the evolution of a dazzling urban culture that became alternately isolated and intertwined with China's tumultuous history. Looking in particular Shanghai's leading banks, publishing enterprises, and department stores, she sketches the rise of a new maritime and capitalist economic culture among the city's middle class--a class of…

Book details

List price: $85.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 9/3/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 319
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.88" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Material Turn



The State in Commerce



Visual Politics and Shanghai Glamour



The Clock and the Compound



Enlightened Paternalism



Petty Urbanites and Tales of Woe



From Patriarchs to Capitalists


Epilogue: The Return of the Banker


Notes


Bibliography


Glossary


Index