The Dianshizhai Pictorial: Shanghai Urban Life, 1884-1898 Volume 98

by Xiaoqing Ye

While twentieth-century Shanghai has received extensive scholarly treatment, the nineteenth century has remained understudied, even though it encompasses the first half-century of Shanghai's growth as a treaty port and the early years of Chinese-foreign contact. Published in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, the Dianshizhai Pictorial provides a record of the new urban popular culture that emerged in Shanghai's foreign settlements...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892641622
• ISBN13: 9780892641628
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: U of M Center for Chinese Studies
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.9" x 10.0"