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Beyond the Neon Lights: Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century (1999; 2004) by Hanchao Lu [LU, HanChao] is a collectibles available to read on EtoBox.
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How did ordinary people live through the extraordinary changes that have swept across modern China? How did peasants transform themselves into urbanites? How did the citizens of Shanghai cope with the epic upheavals—revolution, war, and again revolution—that shook their lives? Even after decades of scholarship devoted to modern Chinese history, our understanding of the daily lives of the common people of China remains sketchy and incomplete. In this carefully researched study, Hanchao Lu weaves
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- Author
- Hanchao Lu [LU, HanChao]
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780520215641
- Category
- collectibles
- Subjects
- Antiques & Collectibles, Urban, Economic Conditions
- Rating
- 4.24 / 5 (24 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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