Culturing Modernity: The Nantong Model, 1890-1930
Autor Qin Shaoen Limba Engleză Hardback – 10 noi 2003
This is a multidimensional study of a simulation of modernity that transformed Nantong, a provincial town, from a rural backwater to a model of progress in early twentieth-century China. The author analyzes this transformation by depicting the new institutional and cultural phenomena used by the elite to exhibit the modern: a museum, theater, cinema, sports arenas, parks, photographs, name cards, paper money, clocks, architecture, investigative tourism, and public speaking. In focusing on this exhibitory modernity and its role in reconstructing this local community and in promoting “the Nantong model” nationwide, the book sheds intriguing new light on the connections between local and national politics and rural and urban experience.
Preț: 526.55 lei
Preț vechi: 650.07 lei
-19% Nou
Puncte Express: 790
Preț estimativ în valută:
100.77€ • 104.67$ • 83.70£
100.77€ • 104.67$ • 83.70£
Carte tipărită la comandă
Livrare economică 03-17 februarie 25
Preluare comenzi: 021 569.72.76
Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780804746892
ISBN-10: 0804746893
Pagini: 376
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Stanford University Press
Colecția Stanford University Press
ISBN-10: 0804746893
Pagini: 376
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Stanford University Press
Colecția Stanford University Press
V-ar putea interesa
-
Mao: A Very Short IntroductionDelia Davin-17%Preț: 46.66 lei56.45 lei -
The Silk Road: A Very Short IntroductionJames A. MillwardPreț: 66.43 lei -
Early Medieval China – A SourcebookWendy SwartzPreț: 375.43 lei -
-16%Preț: 69.16 lei82.56 lei -
Hiroshima NagasakiPaul Ham-15%Preț: 108.78 lei128.38 lei -
A History of Japan, 1334-1615George SansomPreț: 297.35 lei -
A History of Japan, 1615-1867George SansomPreț: 203.39 lei -
Preț: 148.51 lei -
-23%Preț: 763.91 lei992.09 lei
Recenzii
"[Shao's] book is the most complete and best history of Zhang Jian and Nantong available."—The China Review
"Qin Shao's project has ambitious new dimensions. She has not only taken advantage of newly published sources and archives and repeatedly visited Nantong to look with new eye and make extensive interviews. She thoughtfully draws on an eclectic variety of theory to comment on the pitfalls of the concept "modernity," the role of reform models in modern China, and the interplay of the national vs. local and past vs. present... In short, then, Shao's volume is an exemplary monograph, and an important contribution to the study of China's modernity."—China Quarterly
"Shao's book is based on a wealth of archival and interview sources, and provides a thoughtful reassessment of how 'modernity' was experienced in China outside the big cities."—Pacific Affairs
"Shao Qin's monograph deserves praise for its deft handling of theory and its emphasis on the domestic roots of Chinese urban reform."—Histoire Sociale-Social History
Notă biografică
Qin Shao is Associate Professor of History at the College of New Jersey.
Textul de pe ultima copertă
“[Shao’s] book is the most complete and best history of Zhang Jian and Nantong available.”—The China Review
"Shao's book is based on a wealth of archival and interview sources, and provides a thoughtful reassessment of how 'modernity' was experienced in China outside the big cities."—Pacific Affairs
"Shao's book is based on a wealth of archival and interview sources, and provides a thoughtful reassessment of how 'modernity' was experienced in China outside the big cities."—Pacific Affairs
Descriere
This is a multidimensional study of a socially engineered simulation of modernity that transformed Nantong, a provincial town, from a rural backwater to a model of progress in early twentieth-century China. The author analyzes this transformation by a depiction of new institutional and cultural phenomena—for example, a museum, cinema, theater, sports, parks, name cards, paper money—employed by local elite to exhibit the modern.