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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Juan WangPublisher: University of British Columbia Press Imprint: University of British Columbia Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.380kg ISBN: 9780774823395ISBN 10: 0774823399 Pages: 248 Publication Date: 01 July 2013 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Community of Fun 2 Officialdom Unmasked 3 Imagining the Nation 4 Confronting the New 5 Questioning the Appropriators 6 The Market, Populism, and Aesthetics Conclusion Notes Glossary of Chinese Terms and Names Bibliography IndexReviewsJuan Wang surprises us by taking us back to Shanghai at the end of the Qing dynasty and showing that not everyone was swept up in the romance of reform. While a few were striking heroic poses and claiming to change the world, others were laughing at the absurdity of life, the folly of ambition, and the vanity and deceit of politicians. The 1911 Revolution has never looked less revolutionary, or more real. - Timothy Brook, author of The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties Illuminating and endlessly entertaining. Juan Wang does a marvelous job of showing how the tabloids that burst on the scene in Shanghai at the turn of the last century influenced the main political and historical developments of the late Qing. With a stylistic repertoire that included irony, mockery, gossip, sarcasm, and biting humor, these trendy publications, she argues convincingly, did much to prepare the way, intellectually and psychologically, for the demise of the dynasty. - Paul A. Cohen, author of Speaking to History: The Story of King Goujian in Twentieth-Century China Juan Wang surprises us by taking us back to Shanghai at the end of the Qing dynasty and showing that not everyone was swept up in the romance of reform. While a few were striking heroic poses and claiming to change the world, others were laughing at the absurdity of life, the folly of ambition, and the vanity and deceit of politicians. The 1911 Revolution has never looked less revolutionary, or more real. - Timothy Brook, author of The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties Author InformationJuan Wang is an independent scholar of Chinese history. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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