Beyond the neon lights : everyday Shanghai in the early twentieth century /
"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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©1999.
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| Online Access: | Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed) |
| Summary: | "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."--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."--Jacket. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 456 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-426) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520931671 052093167X 0585288984 9780585288987 |