Shanghai and the edges of empires [electronic resource] / Meng Yue.

By: Meng, Yue, 1956-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2006Description: xxx, 295 p. : ill., mapsSubject(s): Shanghai (China) -- Civilization -- 19th century | Shanghai (China) -- Civilization -- 20th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 951/.132033 LOC classification: DS796.S25 | Y8 2006Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Introduction: the border of histories -- Part I. Cosmic and semiotic centers of knowledge -- 1. The shifting locations of the translation of science -- 2. Semiotic modernity: the politics of philology and compilation -- Part II. The carnival and the radical -- 3. Urban festivity as a disruptive history -- 4. In search of a habitable globe -- Part III. Interiors projecting the globe -- 5. Reenvisioning the urban interior: gardens and the paradox of the public sphere -- 6. The rise of an entertainment cosmopolitanism -- Conclusion: Chinese cosmopolitanism repositioned.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-287) and index.

Introduction: the border of histories -- Part I. Cosmic and semiotic centers of knowledge -- 1. The shifting locations of the translation of science -- 2. Semiotic modernity: the politics of philology and compilation -- Part II. The carnival and the radical -- 3. Urban festivity as a disruptive history -- 4. In search of a habitable globe -- Part III. Interiors projecting the globe -- 5. Reenvisioning the urban interior: gardens and the paradox of the public sphere -- 6. The rise of an entertainment cosmopolitanism -- Conclusion: Chinese cosmopolitanism repositioned.

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

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