TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shao,Qin
TI  - Culturing modernity: the Nantong Model, 1890-1930 
SN  - 0804746893
AV  - DS797.56.N365 S43 2004
U1  - 951.136 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Stanford, Calif.
PB  - Stanford University Press
KW  - Zhang, Jian,
KW  - Nantong Shi (China)
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
N1  - 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
N2  - "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
ER  -