Beyond the Neon Lights: Everyday Shanghai in the Early

Beyond the Neon Lights: Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century

How did ordinary people live through the extraordinary changes that have swept across modern China? How did peasants transform themselves into urbanites? How did the citizens of Shanghai cope with the epic upheavalsâ€”revolution, war, and again revolutionâ€”that shook their lives? Even after decades of scholarship devoted to modern Chinese history, our understanding of the daily lives of the common people of China remains sketchy and incomplete. In this carefully researched study, Hanchao Lu weaves rich documentary data with ethnographic surveys and interviews to reconstruct the fabric of everyday life in China's largest and most complex city in the first half of this century.
Country USA
Manufacturer University of California Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2023-07-28
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	University of California Press
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2023-07-28
Format	Kindle eBook

Beyond the Neon Lights: Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century