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Author : Meng Yue
Publisher :
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 30,6 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816644124
Meng Yue examines the emergence of the international city of Shanghai, looking at the work of the commerical press, street theatre and literary arts and he shows that what can appear to be minor cultural changes often signal larger political and economic developments.
Author : Meng Yue
Publisher :
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 29,42 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN : 9781452906997
Meng Yue examines the emergence of the international city of Shanghai, looking at the work of the commerical press, street theatre and literary arts and he shows that what can appear to be minor cultural changes often signal larger political and economic developments.
Author : Nara Dillon
Publisher :
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,16 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN :
Republican Shanghai was a heterogeneous city with no central institutions. Yet somehow it functioned coherently. What held the city together? The authors argue that networks of middlemen with boundless connections provided the glue.
Author : George Lanning
Publisher :
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 29,94 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Shanghai (China)
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Author : David Eimer
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 18,14 MB
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 140881322X
Far from the glittering cities of Beijing and Shanghai, China's borderlands are populated by around one hundred million people who are not Han Chinese. For many of these restive minorities, the old Chinese adage 'the mountains are high and the Emperor far away', meaning Beijing's grip on power is tenuous and its influence unwelcome, continues to resonate. Travelling through China's most distant and unknown reaches, David Eimer explores the increasingly tense relationship between the Han Chinese and the ethnic minorities. Deconstructing the myths represented by Beijing, Eimer reveals a shocking and fascinating picture of a China that is more of an empire than a country.
Author : Alexander Des Forges
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 37,23 MB
Release : 2007-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0824830814
For many in the west, "Shanghai" is the quintessence of East Asian modernity, whether imagined as glamorous and exciting, corrupt and impoverishing, or a complex synthesis of the good, the bad, and the ugly. How did "Shanghai" acquire this power? How did people across China and around the world decide that Shanghai was the place to be? Mediasphere Shanghai shows that partial answers to these questions can be found in the products of Shanghai’s media industry, particularly the Shanghai novel, a distinctive genre of installment fiction that flourished from the 1890s to the 1930s. Shanghai fiction supplies not only the imagery that we now consider typical of the city, but, more significantly, the very forms—simultaneity, interruption, mediation, and excess—through which the city could be experienced as a business and entertainment center and envisioned as the focal point of a mediasphere with a national and transnational reach. Existing paradigms of Shanghai culture tend to explain the city’s distinctive literary and visual aesthetics as merely the predictable result of economic conditions and social processes, but Alexander Des Forges maintains that literary texts and other cultural products themselves constitute a conceptual foundation for the city and construct the frame through which it is perceived. Working from a wide range of sources, including installment fiction, photographs, lithographic illustrations, maps, guidebooks, newspapers, and film, Des Forges demonstrates the significant social effects of aesthetic forms and practices. Mediasphere Shanghai offers a new perspective on the cultural history of the city and on the literature and culture of modern China in general.
Author : Cole Roskam
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 10,73 MB
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0295744804
For nearly one hundred years, Shanghai was an international treaty port in which the extraterritorial rights of foreign governments shaped both architecture and infrastructure, and it merits examination as one of the most complex and influential urban environments of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Improvised City illuminates the interplay between the city’s commercial nature and the architectural forms and practices designed to manage it in Shanghai’s three municipalities: the International Settlement, the French Concession, and the Chinese city. This book probes the relationship between architecture and extraterritoriality in ways that challenge standard narratives of Shanghai’s built environment, which are dominated by stylistic analyses of major landmarks. Instead, by considering a wider range of town halls, post offices, municipal offices, war memorials, water works, and consulates, Cole Roskam traces the cultural, economic, political, and spatial negotiations that shaped Shanghai’s growth. Improvised City repositions Shanghai within architectural and urban transformations that reshaped the world over the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It responds to growing academic interest in the history of modern and contemporary Chinese architecture and urbanism; the ongoing, shifting relationship between sovereignty and space; and the variegated forms of urban exceptionality—such as special economic zones, tax-free trading spheres, and commercial enclaves—that continue to shape cities.
Author : Song Hwee Lim
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,37 MB
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1911239554
This revised and updated new edition provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of cinema in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, as well as to disaporic and transnational Chinese film-making, from the beginnings of cinema to the present day. Chapters by leading international scholars are grouped in thematic sections addressing key historical periods, film movements, genres, stars and auteurs, and the industrial and technological contexts of cinema in Greater China.
Author : Carlos Rojas
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 953 pages
File Size : 14,38 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0199383316
With over forty original essays, The Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literatures offers an in-depth engagement with the current analytical methodologies and critical practices that are shaping the field in the twenty-first century. Divided into three sections--Structure, Taxonomy, and Methodology--the volume carefully moves across approaches, genres, and forms to address a rich range topics that include popular culture in Late Qing China, Zhang Guangyu's Journey to the West in Cartoons, writings of Southeast Asian migrants in Taiwan, the Chinese Anglophone Novel, and depictions of HIV/AIDS in Chu T'ien-wen's Notes of a Desolate Man.
Author : Mark Swislocki
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 32,11 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 0804760128
This book argues that regional food culture is intrinsic to how Chinese connect to the past, live in the present, and imagine their future. It focuses on Shanghai?a food lover's paradise?and identifies the importance of regional food culture at pivotal moments in the city's history, and in Chinese history more generally.