[PDF.22ma] Mapping Modernity in Shanghai: Space, Gender, and Visual Culture in the Sojourners' City, 1853-98 (Asia's Transformations)

Mapping Modernity in Shanghai: Space, Gender, and Visual Culture in the Sojourners' City, 1853-98 (Asia's Transformations)

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 | #4233560 in Books |  2012-05-02 |  2012-05-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.22 x.55 x6.15l,.0 | File type: PDF | 240 pages

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||0 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| A sketchy impression, but useful update of the field|By mimi|When I awaited a contriubtion to the writings about space in late 19th-century Shanghai, my expectations were maybe set too high. Each of the chapters of Samuel Y. Liangs book considers an aspect of this city, of which some have already appeared as articles in journals. In addition, he takes into account all major stu| ||"The great strength of this book is its focus on the spatial rather than the temporal; Shanghai’s urban spaces are brought vividly to life. The book contributes greatly to our understanding of what modernity really meant to the Chinese residents

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 Wes...

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