Shanghai splendor : economic sentiments and the making of modern China, 1843-1949
Title:
Shanghai splendor : economic sentiments and the making of modern China, 1843-1949
Author:
Yeh, Wen-Hsin.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Berkeley : University of California Press, [2007]
©2007
Physical Description:
xiii, 305 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
General Note:
"A Philip E. Lilienthal book in Asian studies"--Jacket.
Language:
English
Contents:
The material turn -- The state in commerce -- Visual politics and Shanghai glamour -- The clock and the compound -- Enlightened paternalism -- Petty urbanites and tales of woe -- From patriarchs to capitalists -- Epilogue: the return of the banker.
ISBN:
9780520249714
Format :
Book
