Shanghai splendor economic sentiments and the making of modern China, 1843-1949 /

Yeh, Wen-Hsin.

Shanghai splendor economic sentiments and the making of modern China, 1843-1949 / [electronic resource] : Wen-hsin Yeh. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007. - xiii, 305 p., [16] p. of plates : ill.

"A Philip E. Lilienthal book in Asian studies"--Jacket.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-284) and index.

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.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9780520933422 (electronic bk.)




Merchants--History.--China--Shanghai


China--Economic conditions--1912-1949.
China--Politics and government--1912-1949.


Electronic books.

HF3836 / .Y44 2007

330.951/13204