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The Dianshizhai Pictorial : Shanghai Urban Life, 1884-1898 /
Ye Xiaoqing has based this study on the Dianshizhai' sdetailed illustrations of everyday life at home, in commercial establishments, and in Shanghai's public areas. Her introduction to the more than one hundred drawings presented here points to the social background, lifestyle, and intelle...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ann Arbor :
Center for Chinese Studies, the University of Michigan,
2003.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part one: a brief history of the Dianshizhai Pictorial. The Shenbao and the Dianshizhai
- The Shanghai literati
- The nature of the Dianshizhai
- Part two: Shanghai: old city, new city. Roads and transportation
- Water supply and hygiene
- Gas and electricity for public lighting
- Urban life in the settlements
- Immigrants to Shanghai
- Conflicting legal systems
- Law enforcements in the settlements
- Part three: a new urban culture. The Shanghai attitude towards things foreign
- Concepts of health and the human body
- Changes in the pattern of human relations
- Relations between the sexes
- Challenges to the traditional socia order
- Vagrants and criminals
- Part four: religious practices. Official attitues
- Attitude of the literati
- Organizers of religious activities
- Social environment and its effect.