Culturing Modernity: The Nantong Model, 1890-1930

This is a multidimensional study of a socially engineered 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 a depiction of new institutional and cultural phenomena-for example, a museum, cinema, theater, sports, parks, name cards, paper money-employed by local elite to exhibit the modern.

• | Author: Qin Shao
• | Publisher: Stanford University Press
• | Publication Date: Nov 11, 2003
• | Number of Pages: 351 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 0804746893
• | ISBN-13: 9780804746892