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Shanghai and the Edges of Empires by Meng, Yue is a social science available to read on EtoBox.
What is Shanghai and the Edges of Empires about?
Even before the romanticized golden era of Shanghai in the 1930s, the famed Asian city was remarkable for its uniqueness and East-meets-West cosmopolitanism. Meng Yue analyzes a century-long shift of urbanity from China’s heartland to its shore. During the period between the decline of Jiangnan cities such as Suzhou and Yangzhou and Shanghai’s early twentieth-century rise, the overlapping cultural edges of a failing Chinese royal order and the encroachment of Western imperialists converged. Simu
Who reads Shanghai and the Edges of Empires?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Meng, Yue
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press; Univ Of Minnesota Press
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781435612075
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- History, Sociology, Urban
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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