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

By: Yeh, Wen-HsinContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007Description: xiii, 305 p., [16] p. of plates : illISBN: 9780520933422 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Merchants -- China -- Shanghai -- History | China -- Economic conditions -- 1912-1949 | China -- Politics and government -- 1912-1949Genre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 330.951/13204 LOC classification: HF3836 | .Y44 2007Online resources: Click to View
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.
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"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.

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