Culturing modernity : the Nantong Model, 1890-1930 / Qin Shao.
Material type: TextPublisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2004Description: xvii, 351 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0804746893
- 9780804746892
- Nantong Model, 1890-1930
- 951.136 22
- DS797.56.N365 S43 2004
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-346) and index.
1. The Model in Myth and Reality -- 2. The Model in Space and Time -- 3. The Model in Print -- 4. The Model on Display -- 5. The Model in Decline -- 6. The Model as Past.
"This is a multidimensional study of a simulation of modernity that transformed Nantong, a provincial town, from a rural backwater to a model of progress in early twentieth-century China. The author analyzes this transformation by depicting the new institutional and cultural phenomena used by the elite to exhibit the modern: a museum, theater, cinema, sports arenas, parks, photographs, name cards, paper money, clocks, architecture, investigative tourism, and public speaking. In focusing on this exhibitory modernity and its role in reconstructing this local community and in promoting "the Nantong model" nationwide, the book sheds intriguing new light on the connections between local and national politics and rural and urban experience."--BOOK JACKET.
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