Space, Gender, and Visual Culture in the Sojourners' City, 1853-98
by
Samuel Y. Liang
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2010
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...