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Shanghai and the edges of empires /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2006]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction. The border of histories
- Part I. Cosmic and semiotic centers of knowledge
- 1. The shifting locations of the translation of science
- 2. Semiotic modernity: the politics of philology and compilation
- Part II. The carnival and the radical
- 3. Urban festivity as a disruptive history
- 4. In search of a habitable globe
- Part III. Interiors projecting the globe
- 5. Reenvisioning the urban interior: gardens and the paradox of the public sphere
- 6. The rise of an entertainment cosmopolitanism
- Conclusion. Chinese cosmopolitanism repositioned.