Things modern
Subtitle: material culture and everyday life in China
By: Frank Dikötter.
Publisher: C. Hurst & Co. (Pub.) Ltd.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9781850658153
Subjects: China -- History -- 20th century; China -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Other titles: Material culture and everyday life in China.
Description: "How to people relate to thing? Much has been written about social movements in modern China, but next to nothing is known about the revolution which transformed the texture of everyday life. This is the first book to map the many changes in the material landscape of China from the mid-nineteenth century to the advent of communism in 1949."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-374) and index.