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Shanghai, 1925 : urban nationalism and the defense of foreign privilege
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ISBN: 0892640375 Year: 1979 Volume: 37 Publisher: Ann Arbor : Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan,


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Mu Shiying : China's lost modernist
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ISBN: 9888268341 9789888268344 9789888208142 9888208144 Year: 2014 Publisher: Hong Kong, China : Hong Kong University Press,

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When the avant-garde writer Mu Shiying was assassinated in 1940, China lost one of its greatest modernist writers while Shanghai lost its most detailed chronicler of its demi-monde nightlife. As Andrew David Field argues, Mu Shiying advanced modern Chinese writing beyond the vernacular expression of May 4 giants Lu Xun and Lao She to even more starkly reveal the alienation of the cosmopolitan-capitalist city of Shanghai, trapped between the forces of civilization and barbarism. Each of these five short stories focuses on the author's key obsessions: the pleasurable yet anxiety-ridden social and sexual relationships of the modern city and the decadent maelstrom of consumption and leisure in Shanghai epitomized by the dance hall and the nightclub. This study places his writings squarely within the framework of Shanghai's social and cultural nightscapes.


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Chang Ch'un-ch'iao and Shanghai's January revolution.
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ISBN: 047290180X 0892640324 Year: 1978 Publisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan. Center for Chinese studies,

Shanghai : revolution and development in an Asian metropolis
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ISBN: 0521231981 0521032075 0511560044 Year: 1981 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge university press,

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Shanghai is Asia's largest city and for over a hundred years has played a critical role both in China's internal political arid economic affairs, and in the history of international relations in the Far East. Before 1949, Shanghai was the principal point of western and, later, Japanese penetrations of China. Under foreign control the city saw the beginnings of modern economic growth, of new forms of westernized education and culture, and of fierce social and political conflicts. This book is a comprehensive study of the way in which old Shanghai was transformed and developed by the Communist Party between 1949 and the later 1970s. It throws light on the paradox that a city that for years was the object of hostility and distrust has become in the Post-Mao era the spearhead of China's new programme for economic and technological modernization. The book is divided into sections dealing with political, economic and cultural change, and with the special characteristics of Shanghai's rural suburbia.

Global Shanghai, 1850 - 2010 : a history in fragments
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ISBN: 9780415213288 9780415213271 0415213274 0415213282 9780203380321 9781134613687 9781134613724 9781134613731 Year: 2009 Publisher: New York : Abingdon, Oxon ; N.Y., NY : Routledge, Routledg,

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