Title: Mapping modernity in Shanghai
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.
Subjects: Public spaces, Refugees, Architecture and society, Urban Sociology, Immigrants, Space (Architecture), History, Refugees, china, Immigrants, china, Sociology, urban, Architecture, china, Architecture et société, Histoire, Espace (Architecture), Aspect social, Espaces publics, Réfugiés, Sociologie urbaine, ARCHITECTURE, Urban & Land Use Planning, Social aspects
Places: Shanghai, China
Time periods: 19th century