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Mapping Modernity in Shanghai: Space, Gender, and Visual Culture in the Sojourners' City, 1853-98: Asia's Transformations

Autor Samuel Y. Liang
en Limba Engleză Paperback – mai 2012
This book argues that modernity first arrived in late nineteenth-century Shanghai via a new spatial configuration. This city’s colonial capitalist development ruptured the traditional configuration of self-contained households, towns, and natural landscapes in a continuous spread, producing a new set of fragmented as well as fluid spaces. In this process, Chinese sojourners actively appropriated new concepts and technology rather than passively responding to Western influences. Liang maps the spatial and material existence of these transient people and reconstructs a cultural geography that spreads from the interior to the neighbourhood and public spaces.
In this book the author:
  • discusses the courtesan house as a surrogate home and analyzes its business, gender, and material configurations;
  • examines a new type of residential neighbourhood and shows how its innovative spatial arrangements transformed the traditional social order and hierarchy;
  • surveys a range of public spaces and highlights the mythic perceptions of industrial marvels, the adaptations of colonial spatial types, the emergence of an urban public, and the spatial fluidity between elites and masses.
Through reading contemporaneous literary and visual sources, the book charts a hybrid modern development that stands in contrast to the positivist conception of modern progress. As such it will be a provocative read for scholars of Chinese cultural and architectural history.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415631167
ISBN-10: 0415631165
Pagini: 240
Ilustrații: 41 line drawings
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Asia's Transformations

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Cuprins

Introduction  1. Fluid Tradition, Splintered Modernity  2. The Convergence of Writing and Commerce  3. Ephemeral Households, Marvelous Things  4. The Meeting of Courtyard and Street  5. Ultimate Ingenuity, Amorphous Crowds  6. The Mingling of Magnates and Masses  Conclusion

Notă biografică

Samuel Y. Liang is Assistant Professor of the Humanities at Utah Valley University, USA

Recenzii

"The great strength of this book is its focus on the spatial rather than the temporal; Shanghai’s urban spaces are brought vividly to life. The book contributes greatly to our understanding of what modernity really meant to the Chinese residents of Shanghai." - Jonathan Howlett: The China Quarterly, December 2011
"Studies of modern Shanghai have disproportionately focused on the city in the early twentieth century, particularly in the Republican era. Liang’s work is a welcome remedy to this obvious imbalance in the field. For its glimpse of life in late nineteenth-century Shanghai and for its rethinking of issues related to city, gender, and modernity, it will be a useful handbook for historians and students of cultural studies." - HANCHAO LU, Georgia Institute of Technology; The Journal of Asian Studies

Descriere

By mapping the city’s native spaces of leisure and everyday life, this book reconstructs the spatial, material, and gender modernity of nineteenth-century Shanghai, giving the reader a window into the social life of late imperial China.