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OverviewThis is a multidimensional study of a simulation of modernity that transformed Nantong, a provincial town, from a rural backwater to a model of progress in early twentieth-century China. The author analyzes this transformation by depicting the new institutional and cultural phenomena used by the elite to exhibit the modern: a museum, theater, cinema, sports arenas, parks, photographs, name cards, paper money, clocks, architecture, investigative tourism, and public speaking. In focusing on this exhibitory modernity and its role in reconstructing this local community and in promoting “the Nantong model” nationwide, the book sheds intriguing new light on the connections between local and national politics and rural and urban experience. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Qin ShaoPublisher: Stanford University Press Imprint: Stanford University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.644kg ISBN: 9780804746892ISBN 10: 0804746893 Pages: 376 Publication Date: 11 November 2003 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsQin Shao's project has ambitious new dimensions. She has not only taken advantage of newly published sources and archives and repeatedly visited Nantong to look with new eye and make extensive interviews. She thoughtfully draws on an eclectic variety of theory to comment on the pitfalls of the concept modernity, the role of reform models in modern China, and the interplay of the national vs. local and past vs. present... In short, then, Shao's volume is an exemplary monograph, and an important contribution to the study of China's modernity. -- China Quarterly Author InformationQin Shao is Associate Professor of History at the College of New Jersey. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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