Beyond the Neon Lights: Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century

How did ordinary people live through the extraordinary changes that have swept across modern China? How did peasants transform themselves into urbanites? How did the citizens of Shanghai cope with the epic upheavals-revolution, war, and again revolution-that shook their lives? Even after decades of scholarship devoted to modern Chinese history, our understanding of the daily lives of the common people of China remains sketchy and incomplete. In this carefully researched study, Hanchao Lu weaves rich documentary data with ethnographic surveys and interviews to reconstruct the fabric of everyday life in China's largest and most complex city in the first half of this century.

Author: Hanchao Lu
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 09/30/2004
Pages: 456
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.02h x 6.04w x 1.16d
ISBN13: 9780520243781
ISBN10: 0520243781
BISAC Categories:
- History | Asia | China
- Social Science | Sociology | Urban
- Antiques & Collectibles | General

About the Author
Hanchao Lu is Professor of History at Georgia Institute of Technology.