Beyond the neon lights
everyday Shanghai in the early twentieth century
by Hanchao Lu
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"How did ordinary people live through the extraordinary changes that swept across modern China? How did the "little people" cope with the epic upheavals that shook their lives? How did peasants transform themselves into urbanites? In this carefully researched study, Hanchao Lu weaves rich documentary data with ethnographic surveys and interviews to reconstruct the fabric of everyday life in China's largest and most complex city in the first half of this century."--BOOK JACKET.
"Today, in the post-Mao, post-Deng era, China faces a vigorous resurgence of paradoxes similar to those that surfaced at the end of the imperial era. At the same time, the pragmatism of the Chinese people endures, suggesting that the lessons of the past have broad implications for urban China and urban-rural relations in China at the beginning of the third millennium."--BOOK JACKET.
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Social conditions, Social life and customs, Economic conditions, Shanghai (china), China, social conditions, China, social life and customs, China, economic conditions, China, history, 20th century, Mœurs et coutumes, Conditions sociales, Conditions économiques, HISTORY, Economic history, Manners and customs, Sociaal-economische geschiedenis, Alltag, Soziale Situation, Moeurs et coutumes, Geschichte 1900-1960, Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East, History & Archaeology, East AsiaPlaces
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Beyond the Neon Lights: Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century
September 30, 2004, University of California Press
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Beyond the neon lights: everyday Shanghai in the early twentieth century
1999, University of California Press
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Beyond the Neon Lights: Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century
1999, University of California Press
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 393-426) and index.
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"The writer Aldous Huxlev (1894-1963), who traveled the world extensively, exclaimed in 1926 that none of the cities he had ever seen so overwhelmingly impressed him with its teeming humanity as Shanghai."
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