{"product_id":"dwelling-in-the-world-elizabeth-lacouture-9780231181785","title":"Dwelling in the World: Family, House, and Home in Tianjin, China, 1860-1960","description":"By the early twentieth century, Chinese residents of the northern treaty-port city of Tianjin were dwelling in the world. Divided by nine foreign concessions, Tianjin was one of the world's most colonized and cosmopolitan cities. Residents could circle the globe in an afternoon, strolling from a Chinese courtyard house through a Japanese garden past a French Beaux-Arts bank to dine at a German caf  and fall asleep in a British garden city-style semi-attached brick house. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eDwelling in the World\u003c\/i\u003e considers family, house, and home in Tianjin to explore how tempos and structures of everyday life changed with the fall of the Qing Empire and the rise of a colonized city. Elizabeth LaCouture argues that the intimate ideas and practices of the modern home were more important in shaping the gender and status identities of Tianjin's urban elites than the new public ideology of the nation. Placing the Chinese home in a global context, she challenges Euro-American historical notions that the private sphere emerged from industrialization. She argues that concepts of individual property rights that emerged during the Republican era became foundational to state-society relations in early Communist housing reforms and in today's middle-class real estate boom. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on diverse sources from municipal archives, women's magazines, and architectural field work to social surveys and colonial records, \u003ci\u003eDwelling in the World\u003c\/i\u003e recasts Chinese social and cultural history, offering new perspectives on gender and class, colonialism and empire, visual and material culture, and technology and everyday life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Elizabeth Lacouture\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0231181787\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780231181785\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Columbia University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/10\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 376\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.59lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d","brand":"Elizabeth Lacouture","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43991032529151,"sku":"9780231181785","price":145.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5ff29080-f3fe-41f6-ba3a-02501306fe05.jpg?v=1683308053","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dwelling-in-the-world-elizabeth-lacouture-9780231181785","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}