Shanghai and the edges of empires

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Autor Principal: Meng, Yue, 1956-
Autor Corporativo: ebrary, Inc
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2006.
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Table of 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.