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

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

Liang, Samuel Y.

Hardcover

Series: Asia's Transformations

Gifts & Stationery GeneralGeneral ArchitectureArchitecture History

ISBN10: 0415569133
ISBN13: 9780415569132
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 2 2010
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.13
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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.

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