TY - BOOK AU - Meng,Yue ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - Shanghai and the edges of empires AV - DS796.S25 Y8 2006 U1 - 951/.132033 22 PY - 2006/// CY - Minneapolis PB - University of Minnesota Press KW - Shanghai (China) KW - Civilization KW - 19th century KW - 20th century KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=326387 ER -