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1. Mapping Modernity in Shanghai

   Space, Gender, and Visual Culture in the Sojourners' City, 1853-98

   By Samuel Y. Liang

   Series: Asia's Transformations

   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...

   Published April 30th 2012 by Routledge