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Shanghai Splendor: Economic Sentiments and the Making of Modern China, 1843-1949 (Philip E. Lilienthal Book in Asian Studies)
Rich with details of everyday life, this multifaceted social and cultural history of China's leading metropolis in the twentieth century offers a kaleidoscopic view of Shanghai as the major site of Chinese modernization. Engaging the entire span of Shanghai's modern history from the Opium War to the eve of the Communist takeover in 1949, Wen-hsin Yeh traces the evolution of a dazzling urban culture that became alternately isolated from and intertwined with China's tumultuous history. Looking in particular at Shanghai's leading banks, publishing enterprises, and department stores, she sketches the rise of a new maritime and capitalist economic culture among the city's middle class. Making extensive use of urban tales and visual representations, the book captures urbanite voices as it uncovers the sociocultural dynamics that shaped the people and their politics..
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In the Shadow of the Rising Sun: Shanghai under Japanese Occupation (Cambridge Modern China Series)
Rejecting conventional demands, this book examines how ordinary men and women, Chinese as well as foreign, endured the Japanese military assault and occupation of Shanghai during the Chinese War of Resistance (1937-1945). Instead of presenting their stories in terms of heroic resistance versus shameful collaboration with the enemy, the volume reveals how the city's dwellers mobilized a variety of social networks to circumvent enemy strictures. They employed strategies that kept alive a culture and an economy that were vital to the survival of the brutalized population..
Price: $39.99
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Wartime Shanghai
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Shanghai Splendor: A Cultrual History, 1843-1945 (Philip E. Lilienthal Books)
Rich with details of everyday life, this multifaceted social and cultural history of China's leading metropolis in the twentieth century offers a kaleidoscopic view of Shanghai as the major site of Chinese modernization. Engaging the entire span of Shanghai's modern history from the Opium War to the eve of the Communist takeover in 1949, Wen-hsin Yeh traces the evolution of a dazzling urban culture that became alternately isolated from and intertwined with China's tumultuous history. Looking in particular at Shanghai's leading banks, publishing enterprises, and department stores, she sketches the rise of a new maritime and capitalist economic culture among the city's middle class. Making extensive use of urban tales and visual representations, the book captures urbanite voices as it uncovers the sociocultural dynamics that shaped the people and their politics..
Price: $18.28
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The Elegant Gathering: The Yeh Family Collection
" In 2003, the Yehs, a prominent Chinese family with West Coast links, donated their art collection to the San Francisco Asian Art Museum. This show offers more than 80 images from the collection--mostly Chinese painting and calligraphy--from the Ming period to the 20th century One highlight is an early album of Chu Suiliang, a Tang dynasty calligrapher." -- The New York TimesThe paintings and calligraphy included in this beautiful edition--some of which date as far back as the seventh century--were collected over three generations beginning in the mid-1800s. Included are major works by Mi Fu (1051û1107), Fu Shan (1605û1690), Zhang Daqian (1899û1983), and others, as well as artworks by members of the Yeh family and their contemporaries. Often paintings and calligraphies were produced or discussed in literati meetings called "elegant gatherings." More than just a catalogue of an extraordinary colelction, the book considers the act of collecting itself, and the cultural implications of a family collection in the Chinese context. .
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Becoming Chinese: Passages to Modernity and Beyond (Studies on China, 23)
This volume evaluates the dual roles of war and modernity in the transformation of twentieth-century Chinese identity. The contributors, all leading researchers, argue that war, no less than revolution, deserves attention as a major force in the making of twentieth-century Chinese history. Further, they show that modernity in material culture and changes in intellectual consciousness should serve as twin foci of a new wave of scholarly analysis. Examining in particular the rise of modern Chinese cities and the making of the Chinese nation-state, the contributors to this interdisciplinary volume of cultural history provide new ways of thinking about China's modern transformation up to the 1950s. Taken together, the essays demonstrate that the combined effect of a modernizing state and an industrializing economy weakened the Chinese bourgeoisie and undercut the individual's quest for autonomy.
Drawing upon new archival sources, these theoretically informed, thoroughly revisionist essays focus on topics such as Western-inspired modernity, urban cosmopolitanism, consumer culture, gender relationships, interchanges between city and countryside, and the growing impact of the state on the lives of individuals. The volume makes an important contribution toward a postsocialist understanding of twentieth-century China..
Price: $12.99
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