num_pages: 258
description: While twentieth-century Shanghai has received extensive scholarly treatment, the nineteenth century has remained understudied, even though it encompasses the first half-century of Shanghai's growth as a treaty port and the early years of Chinese-foreign contact. Published in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, the Dianshizhai Pictorial provides a record of the new urban popular culture that emerged in Shanghai's foreign settlements during this period.Ye Xiaoqing has based this study on the Dianshizhai's detailed illustrations of everyday life at home, in commercial establishments, and in Shanghai's public areas. Her introduction to the more than one hundred drawings presented here points to the social background, lifestyle, and intellectual outlook of the Dianshizhai's literati writers and artists, the weakness of gentry control in the foreign settlements, and the commercialization and "modern" material culture that made Shanghai distinctive. T
language: English
title: The Dianshizhai Pictorial: Shanghai Urban Life, 1884-1898 (Michigan Monographs In Chinese Studies)
titlecomplete: The Dianshizhai Pictorial: Shanghai Urban Life, 1884-1898 (Michigan Monographs In Chinese Studies) (Volume 98)
ratings_count: 1
publisher: U OF M CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES