Mapping modernity in Shanghai
Subtitle: space, gender, and visual culture in the sojourners' city, 1853-98
By: Samuel Y. Liang
Series: Asia's transformations
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxon [England]; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780415569132; 9780203852149
Other titles: Space, gender, and visual culture in the sojourners' city, 1853-98
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Fluid tradition, splintered modernity; title: The convergence of writing and commerce; title: Ephemeral households, marvelous things; title: The meeting of courtyard and street; title: Ultimate ingenuity, amorphous crowds; title: The mingling of magnates and masses.