Shanghai splendor
Subtitle: economic sentiments and the making of modern China
By: Wen-hsin Yeh.
Series: Philip E. Lilienthal book in Asian studies
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780520249714
Subjects: Merchants -- China -- Shanghai -- History; China -- Economic conditions -- 1912-1949; China -- Politics and government -- 1912-1949
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The material turn; title: The state in commerce; title: Visual politics and Shanghai glamour; title: The clock and the compound; title: Enlightened paternalism; title: Petty urbanites and tales of woe; title: From patriarchs to capitalists; title: Epilogue: the return of the banker.