Mapping Modernity in Shanghai Space, Gender, and Visual Culture in the Sojourners' City, 1853-98 Asia's Transformations Series
Auteur : Liang Samuel Y.
This book argues that modernity first arrived in late nineteenth-century Shanghai via a new spatial configuration. This city?s colonial capitalist development ruptured the traditional configuration of self-contained households, towns, and natural landscapes in a continuous spread, producing a new set of fragmented as well as fluid spaces. In this process, Chinese sojourners actively appropriated new concepts and technology rather than passively responding to Western influences. Liang maps the spatial and material existence of these transient people and reconstructs a cultural geography that spreads from the interior to the neighbourhood and public spaces.
In this book the author:
- discusses the courtesan house as a surrogate home and analyzes its business, gender, and material configurations;
- examines a new type of residential neighbourhood and shows how its innovative spatial arrangements transformed the traditional social order and hierarchy;
- surveys a range of public spaces and highlights the mythic perceptions of industrial marvels, the adaptations of colonial spatial types, the emergence of an urban public, and the spatial fluidity between elites and masses.
Through reading contemporaneous literary and visual sources, the book charts a hybrid modern development that stands in contrast to the positivist conception of modern progress. As such it will be a provocative read for scholars of Chinese cultural and architectural history.
Introduction 1. Fluid Tradition, Splintered Modernity 2. The Convergence of Writing and Commerce 3. Ephemeral Households, Marvelous Things 4. The Meeting of Courtyard and Street 5. Ultimate Ingenuity, Amorphous Crowds 6. The Mingling of Magnates and Masses Conclusion
Samuel Y. Liang is Assistant Professor of the Humanities at Utah Valley University, USA
Date de parution : 05-2012
15.6x23.4 cm
Date de parution : 06-2010
15.6x23.4 cm
Thèmes de Mapping Modernity in Shanghai :
Mots-clés :
Courtesan Houses; courtesan; Dianshizhai Huabao; houses; Fourth Avenue; dianshizhai; Fi Ve; huabao; Li Compounds; wang; Young Man; tao; Late Nineteenth Century Shanghai; late; Elite Courtesans; imperial; Late Imperial China; china; Han Bangqing; fourth; Nineteenth Century Shanghai; Pleasure Quarters; Fi Remen; Li Houses; Homelike Space; Zhang Shou; Western Style Restaurants; Fi Ne Day; Christine Buci Glucksmann; Rickshaw Pullers; Fi Ne Restaurants; Foreign Landowners; Fi Rst Perceptions; Carriage Ride; Courtesan Culture