Shanghai modern
Subtitle: the flowering of a new urban culture in China, 1930-1945
By: Leo Ou-fan Lee.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 408
Subjects: Popular culture -- China -- Shanghai; Shanghai (China) -- Social life and customs; China -- Civilization -- 1912-1949
Description: This text explores the golden age of Shanghai urban culture, a modernity which was once intrinsically Chinese and profoundly anomalous, blending new and indigenous ideas with those flooding into this 'treaty port' from the Western world.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-386) and index.