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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...

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Autor principal: Meng, Yue, 1956- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2006]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 0 |g Introduction.  |t The border of histories --  |g Part I.  |t Cosmic and semiotic centers of knowledge --  |g 1.  |t The shifting locations of the translation of science --  |g 2.  |t Semiotic modernity: the politics of philology and compilation --  |g Part II.  |t The carnival and the radical --  |g 3.  |t Urban festivity as a disruptive history --  |g 4.  |t In search of a habitable globe --  |g Part III.  |t Interiors projecting the globe --  |g 5.  |t Reenvisioning the urban interior: gardens and the paradox of the public sphere --  |g 6.  |t The rise of an entertainment cosmopolitanism --  |g Conclusion.  |t Chinese cosmopolitanism repositioned. 
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