Understanding Canton: Rethinking Popular Culture in the Republican Period

by Virgil Ho

This book broadens our understanding of the culture and society of Canton, the largest metroplois in South China, in the period between the two World Wars. It redresses serious misconceptions of the extent of damage inflicted by gambling, prostitution and opium consumption on the Cantonese society and its people. There is abundant evidence that common Cantonese were more receptive to a pro-Western mentality, despite their reputation for being jingoistic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199282714
• ISBN13: 9780199282715
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"