Shanghai: China's Gateway to Modernity - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Marie-Claire Bergère, Janet Lloyedau (Translator)Publish date:2009-12-29Pages:520
Language:EnglishPublisher:Stanford University PressISBN-13:9780804749053ISBN-10:804749051UPC:9780804749053Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:AsiaBook Topic:ChinaSize:8.92 x 6.12 x 1.07 inchesWeight:1.5013Product ID:SCGEDB2DAG
Shanghai: China's Gateway to Modernity
Shanghai today is a thriving, bustling metropolis. But does its avid pursuit of the modern trappings of success truly indicate that it will once again become the shining example of China's commercial and cosmopolitan culture? While history continues to unfold, eminent China scholar Marie-Claire Bergère takes readers back to when Shanghai first opened to the world in 1842 to narrate the city's...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Stanford University PressISBN-13:9780804749053ISBN-10:804749051UPC:9780804749053Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:AsiaBook Topic:ChinaSize:8.92 x 6.12 x 1.07 inchesWeight:1.5013Product ID:SCGEDB2DAG
Marie-Claire Berg?re taught modern and contemporary Chinese history at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales and at the Ecole des Hautes ?tudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris). She published or edited numerous articles and a dozen books, most recently Capitalismes et capitalistes en Chine, XIXe-XXIe si?cle (2007).
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