Shanghai and the edges of empires [electronic resource] / Meng Yue.
Publication details: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2006.Description: xxx, 295 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:- 951/.132033 22
- DS796.S25 Y8 2006eb
Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-287) and index.
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.
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