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Inventing Nanjing Road: Commercial Culture in Shanghai, 1900-1945 (Cornell East Asia, No. 103) (Cornell East Asia Series)
Sherman Cochran (Ed.)
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Description for Inventing Nanjing Road: Commercial Culture in Shanghai, 1900-1945 (Cornell East Asia, No. 103) (Cornell East Asia Series)
Paperback. Editor(s): Cochran. Num Pages: 252 pages. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
The contributors to this collection of seven essays (plus an editor's introduction and a comparative afterword) have framed debates about the construction of commercial culture in China. They all have agreed that during the early twentieth century China's commercial culture was centered in the private sector of Shanghai's economy and especially in the "concession" areas under Western or Japanese rule, but they have differed over the issue of whether foreign influence was decisive in the creation of Shanghai's commercial culture. Between 1900 and 1937, was Shanghai's commercial culture imported from the West or invented locally? And between 1937 and 1945, ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Cornell Univ East Asia Program
Condition
New
Number of Pages
270
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781885445032
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V9781885445032
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About Sherman Cochran (Ed.)
The volume editor, Sherman Cochran, is Professor of History at Cornell University.
Reviews for Inventing Nanjing Road: Commercial Culture in Shanghai, 1900-1945 (Cornell East Asia, No. 103) (Cornell East Asia Series)
Admirably compact and coherent, Inventing Nanjing Road is an excellent sampler of current research on the development of business, advertisement, entertainment, and urban life-styles in modern Shanghai. The essays in this volume, which introduce the field's intellectual issues, as well as the colorful sources available to address them, will attract new researchers to the field. For use in undergraduate and ... Read more