2006, ISBN: 9780816644124

Buch, Hardcover, 2nd ed. A highly innovative investigation into Shanghai's rise from peripheral port to urban center. Even before the romanticized golden era of Shanghai in the 1930s, the… More...

Buch, Hardcover, 2nd ed. A highly innovative investigation into Shanghai's rise from peripheral port to urban center. Even before the romanticized golden era of Shanghai in the 1930s, the famed Asian city was remarkable for its uniqueness and East-meets-West cosmopolitanism. Meng Yue analyzes a century-long shift of urbanity from China's heartland to its shore. During the period between the decline of Jiangnan cities such as Suzhou and Yangzhou and Shanghai's early twentieth-century rise, the overlapping cultural edges of a failing Chinese royal order and the encroachment of Western imperialists converged. Simultaneously appropriating and resisting imposing forces, Shanghai opened itself to unruly, subversive practices, becoming a crucible of creativity and modernism. Calling into question conventional ways of conceptualizing modernity, colonialism, and intercultural relations, Meng Yue examines such cultural practices as the work of the commercial press, street theater, and literary arts, and shows that what appear to be minor cultural changes often signal the presence of larger political and economic developments. Engaging theories of modernity and postcolonial and global cultural studies, Meng Yue reveals the paradoxical interdependence between imperial and imperialist histories and the retranslation of culture that characterized the most notable result of China's urban relocation - the emergence of the international city of Shanghai. [PU: University of Minnesota Press], Seiten: 336, University of Minnesota Press, 2006<

2006, ISBN: 9780816644124

University of Minnesota Press, Gebundene Ausgabe, Auflage: 2nd ed, 336 Seiten, Publiziert: 2006-06-14T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, Hersteller-Nr.: Illustrated, 1.21 kg, Soziologie, Soz… More...

University of Minnesota Press, Gebundene Ausgabe, Auflage: 2nd ed, 336 Seiten, Publiziert: 2006-06-14T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, Hersteller-Nr.: Illustrated, 1.21 kg, Soziologie, Sozialwissenschaft, Kategorien, Bücher, Lexika, Hand- & Jahrbücher, Schule & Lernen, Asien, Geschichte nach Ländern, Politik & Geschichte, China, Moderne & Postmoderne, Epochen, Format: Illustriert, University of Minnesota Press, 2006<

2006, ISBN: 9780816644124

University of Minnesota Press, Hardcover, Auflage: 2nd ed. 336 Seiten, Publiziert: 2006-01-01T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, Hersteller-Nr.: Illustrated, 0.55 kg, Books Global Store, Spe… More...

University of Minnesota Press, Hardcover, Auflage: 2nd ed. 336 Seiten, Publiziert: 2006-01-01T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, Hersteller-Nr.: Illustrated, 0.55 kg, Books Global Store, Special Features, Books, China, Asia, History, Subjects, Reference, Family & Social Groups, Sociology, Politics, Philosophy & Social Sciences, Format: Illustrated, University of Minnesota Press, 2006<

2006, ISBN: 9780816644124

Univ Of Minnesota Press, Hardcover, Auflage: 2nd ed. 336 Seiten, Publiziert: 2006-06-14T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, Hersteller-Nr.: Illustrated, 0.55 kg, China, Asia, History, Subject… More...

Univ Of Minnesota Press, Hardcover, Auflage: 2nd ed. 336 Seiten, Publiziert: 2006-06-14T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, Hersteller-Nr.: Illustrated, 0.55 kg, China, Asia, History, Subjects, Books, Urban, Sociology, Politics & Social Sciences, Format: Illustrated, Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2006<