Shanghai and the edges of empires / Meng Yue.
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| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xxx, 295 p. :; ill., maps. |
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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.