Shanghai and the edges of empires / Meng Yue.
Meng, Yue, 1956-
2006
DS796.S25 Y8 2006 (Mapit)
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Title Shanghai and the edges of empires / Meng Yue.
Author Meng, Yue, 1956-
ISBN 9780816644131 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0816644136 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780816644124 (alk. paper)
0816644128 (alk. paper)
Imprint Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2006.
Language English
Description xxx, 295 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Call Number DS796.S25 Y8 2006
Dewey Decimal Classification 951/.132033
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-287) and index.
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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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