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Author Yeh, Wen-Hsin.

Title Shanghai splendor [electronic resource] : economic sentiments and the making of modern China, 1843-1949 / Wen-hsin Yeh.

Imprint Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xiii, 305 p., [16] p. of plates : ill.
Note "A Philip E. Lilienthal book in Asian studies"--Jacket.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-284) and index.
Contents The material turn -- The state in commerce -- Visual politics and Shanghai glamour -- The clock and the compound -- Enlightened paternalism -- Petty urbanites and tales of woe -- From patriarchs to capitalists -- Epilogue: the return of the banker.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Merchants -- China -- Shanghai -- History.
China -- Economic conditions -- 1912-1949.
China -- Politics and government -- 1912-1949.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780520249714 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520249712 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780520933422 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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