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everyday Shanghai in the early twentieth century

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An edition of Beyond the neon lights (1999)

Beyond the neon lights

everyday Shanghai in the early twentieth century

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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.

Publish Date
Language
English
Pages
456

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Cover of: Beyond the Neon Lights
Beyond the Neon Lights: Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century
September 30, 2004, University of California Press
Paperback in English - 1 edition
Cover of: Beyond the Neon Lights
Beyond the Neon Lights: Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century
1999, University of California Press
in English
Cover of: Beyond the neon lights
Beyond the neon lights: everyday Shanghai in the early twentieth century
1999, University of California Press
in English

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 393-426) and index.

Published in
Berkeley

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
951/.132
Library of Congress
DS796.S25 L8 1999, DS796.S25 L8 1999eb

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvii, 456 p. :
Number of pages
456

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL370566M
Internet Archive
beyondneonlights0000luha
ISBN 10
0520215648
LCCN
98031298
OCLC/WorldCat
45729540, 39936812
Library Thing
2909013
Goodreads
3519720

First Sentence

"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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