Dwelling in the World : : Family, House, and Home in Tianjin, China, 1860–1960 / / Elizabeth LaCouture.
By the early twentieth century, Chinese residents of the northern treaty-port city of Tianjin were dwelling in the world. Divided by nine foreign concessions, Tianjin was one of the world’s most colonized and cosmopolitan cities. Residents could circle the globe in an afternoon, strolling from a Chi...
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| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I. Domestic Empires
- 1 Unraveling the Chinese Empire
- 2 Family in Ideology and Practice
- 3 Property, Power, and Identity in a Colonial-Capitalist City
- Part 2 At Home in the World
- 4 Choosing a House
- 5 Designing House and Home
- 6 Living at Home
- Part 3 Chinese Social Spaces
- 7 Engendering the Chinese City
- 8 The Chinese Bourgeois Home in the Socialist World
- Epilogue Historical Erasures and China’s New Middle Class
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index