Foreigners and Foreign Institutions in Republican China.
Republican China attracted an uncommon diversity of foreign interests, groups, and individuals, which included missionaries, adventurers, diplomats, academics, humanitarians and refugees, as well as hedonists and tourists. By exploring the diverse nature of foreign activities in Republican China, th...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2012.
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Colección: | Chinese worlds.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of contributors; Introduction: foreign bodies; PART I Heterotopic China; 1 The Italian production of space in Tianjin: heterotopia and emotional capital; 2 Lending words: foreign language education and teachers in Republican Peking; 3 Redefining institutional identity: the YWCA challenge to extraterritoriality in China, 1925-1930; 4 Comintern activists in China: spies or theorists?; 5 Observations of the political and economic situation in China by the British mercantile community during the civil war, 1945-1949
- PART II Shanghaied: morality tales from the Paris of the East6 Shanghai three ways: the 1930s view from Tokyo, Paris and Shanghai; 7 Adventurers, aesthetes and tourists: foreign homosexuals in Republican China; 8 Sissywood vs. Alleyman: going nose to nose in Shanghai; 9 Takeda Taijun in Shanghai: recollections of Republican China and Imperial Japan; PART III With China at war; 10 "What is it makes the stranger?": Robin Hyde in China; 11 Italians in Nationalist China (1928-1945): some case studies