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Shanghai and the edges of empires
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Shanghai and the edges of empires [electronic resource] / Meng Yue.
ISBN
0816661073
9780816661077
0816644128 (hc : alk. paper)
0816644136 (pb)
9780816644124
9780816644131
Published
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2006. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxx, 295 p. :) : ill., maps ;
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Variant and related titles
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Project MUSE - UPCC Archive Asian and Pacific Studies Supplement II.
Project MUSE - UPCC Archive Complete Supplement III.
Project MUSE - UPCC Archive Global Cultural Studies Supplement III.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 13, 2015
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-287) and index.
Contents
Introduction: the border of histories
Part I. Cosmic and semiotic centers of knowledge
1. The shifting locations of the translation of science
2. Semiotic modernity: the politics of philology and compilation
Part II. The carnival and the radical
3. Urban festivity as a disruptive history
4. In search of a habitable globe
Part III. Interiors projecting the globe
5. Reenvisioning the urban interior: gardens and the paradox of the public sphere
6. The rise of an entertainment cosmopolitanism
Conclusion: Chinese cosmopolitanism repositioned.
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