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• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 19 May 2024

An innovative study of colonialism in China, examining Shanghai's International Settlement as the site of key developments in the Republican period.

• Publisher : University of Toronto Press
• File Size : 53,5 Mb
• Release Date : 27 April 2022

In 1931, a sexologist arrived in colonial Shanghai to give a public lecture about homosexuality. In the audience was a medical student. The sexologist, Magnus Hirschfeld, fell in love with the

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 40,7 Mb
• Release Date : 30 March 2023

When World War II ended Chiang Kai-shek seemed at the height of his power-the leader of Nationalist China, one of the victorious Allied Powers in 1945 and with the financial backing

• Publisher : BRILL
• File Size : 51,6 Mb
• Release Date : 14 April 2020

In Intoxicating Shanghai, Paul Bevan explores the work of a number of Chinese modernist figures in the fields of literature and the visual arts, with an emphasis on the literary

• Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
• File Size : 51,8 Mb
• Release Date : 18 July 2022

The years 1900 to 1954 marked the transformation from an exotic, colonized "Far East" to a more autonomous, prominent "Asia Pacific". This anthology examines the grand strategies of great powers as they

• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
• File Size : 40,8 Mb
• Release Date : 21 March 2024

The dismantlement of the British Empire had a profound impact on many celebrated white Anglophone writers of the twentieth century, particularly those who were raised in former British colonial territories

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 47,8 Mb
• Release Date : 30 April 2024

A captivating social and political history of Shanghai under high socialism. Lu explores the lived experience of Mao's China.

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 31,6 Mb
• Release Date : 08 October 2019

Examining the rise of Pudong and its role in re-creating Shanghai as a global city, Global Shanghai Remade utilises this important case study to shed light on contemporary globalisation and

• Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
• File Size : 22,7 Mb
• Release Date : 16 June 2020

How a single day revealed the history and foreshadowed the future of Shanghai. It is November 12, 1941, and the world is at war. In Shanghai, just weeks before Pearl Harbor, thousands

• Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
• File Size : 47,6 Mb
• Release Date : 21 August 2023

This volume is the first book-length monograph on the most widespread and deadly infectious disease in China, both historically and today: tuberculosis (TB). Weaving together interviews with data from periodicals