{"product_id":"culturing-modernity-qin-shao-9780804746892","title":"Culturing Modernity: The Nantong Model, 1890-1930","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is a multidimensional study of a simulation of modernity that transformed Nantong, a provincial town, from a rural backwater to a model of progress in early twentieth-century China. The author analyzes this transformation by depicting the new institutional and cultural phenomena used by the elite to exhibit the modern: a museum, theater, cinema, sports arenas, parks, photographs, name cards, paper money, clocks, architecture, investigative tourism, and public speaking. In focusing on this exhibitory modernity and its role in reconstructing this local community and in promoting \"the Nantong model\" nationwide, the book sheds intriguing new light on the connections between local and national politics and rural and urban experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Qin Shao\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0804746893\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804746892\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/11\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 351\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.42lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.74h x 6.80w x 1.02d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2004 pg. 2102","brand":"Qin Shao","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44616366457087,"sku":"9780804746892","price":90.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_eaac2866-2396-47e9-a61e-5f84aa6d3629.jpg?v=1703019952","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/culturing-modernity-qin-shao-9780804746892","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}