Things Modern: Material Culture and Everyday Life in China Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Things Modern: Material Culture and Everyday Life in China Book

1 Introduction 1 Material culture in modern China 1 The fictions of 'authenticity', 'hybridity' and 'acculturation' 3 The limits of 'emulation', 'consumption' and 'representation' 9 Things and people 12 Worship of the tangible 14 The sources...Read More

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    Maps many changes in the material landscape of China from the mid nineteenth century to the advent of communism in 1949. This book analyses how a very pragmatic attitude towards material goods prevailed as most consumers bought the new and discarded the old without misgivings.

  • 1850658153
  • 9781850658153
  • Frank Dikotter
  • 1 November 2006
  • C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
  • Hardcover (Book)
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