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Shanghai Splendor: A Cultural History, 1843-1949
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Shanghai Splendor: A Cultural History, 1843-1949 Paperback - 2007 - 1st Edition

by Yeh, Wen-hsin

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  • Title Shanghai Splendor: A Cultural History, 1843-1949
  • Author Yeh, Wen-hsin
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition New
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press
  • Date 2007-09-03
  • Features Bibliography, Glossary, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # ING9780520258174
  • ISBN 9780520258174 / 0520258177
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 5.9 x 0.8 in (22.86 x 14.99 x 2.03 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Chronological Period: 1900-1949
    • Cultural Region: Asian - General
    • Cultural Region: Asian - Chinese
  • Dewey Decimal Code 330.951

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From the rear cover

"What a fine and illuminating book! Shanghai Splendor is an important and captivating work of scholarship."--David Strand, author of Rickshaw Beijing: City People and Politics in the 1920s

"This in an outstanding work. Although Shanghai has been among the most popular subjects for scholars in modern Chinese studies, one has yet to see a project as impressive as this. Yeh tells a most fascinating story."--David Der-wei Wang, author of The Monster That Is History: History, Violence, and Fictional Writing in 20th Century China

About the author

Wen-hsin Yeh is Richard H. and Laurie C. Morrison Professor in History at the Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley. She is author of The Alienated Academy: Culture and Politics in Republican China and Provinical Passages: Culture, Space, and the Origins of Chinese Communism (UC Press) and editor of Becoming Chinese: Passages to Modernity and Beyond, 1900-1950 (UC Press).

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