{"product_id":"shanghai-marie-claire-bergre-9780804749053","title":"Shanghai: China's Gateway to Modernity","description":"\u003cp\u003eShanghai today is a thriving, bustling metropolis. But does its avid pursuit of the modern trappings of success truly indicate that it will once again become the shining example of China's commercial and cosmopolitan culture? While history continues to unfold, eminent China scholar Marie-Claire Berg鑽e takes readers back to when Shanghai first opened to the world in 1842 to narrate the city's tumultuous and unique course to the present. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eShanghai: China's Gateway to Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e is the first comprehensive history of Shanghai in any Western language. Divided into four parts, Berg鑽e details Shanghai's beginnings as a treaty port in the mid-nineteenth century; its capitalist boom following the 1911 Revolution; the fifteen years of economic and social decline initiated by the Japanese invasion in 1937, and attempts at resistance; and the city's disgraced years under Communism. Weaving together a range of archival documents and existing histories to create a global picture of Shanghai's past and present, Berg鑽e shows that Shanghai's success was not fated, as some contend, by an evolutionary pattern set into motion long before the arrival of westerners. Rather, her account identifies the relationship between the Chinese and foreigners in Shanghai--their interaction, cooperation, and rivalry--as the driving force behind the creation of an original culture, a specific modernity, founded upon western contributions but adapted to the national Chinese culture.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEclipsed for three decades by socialism, the wheels of the Shanghai spirit began to turn in the 1990s, when the reform movement took off anew. The city is again being referred to as a model for China's current modernization drive. Although it makes no claims to what will happen next, Berg鑽e's \u003ci\u003eShanghai\u003c\/i\u003e stands as a compelling and definitive profile of a city whose urban history continues to be redefined, retold, and resold.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marie-Claire Berg鑽e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0804749051\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804749053\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 12\/29\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 520\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.92h x 6.12w x 1.07d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2010 pg. 55","brand":"Marie-Claire Berg鑽e","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43947217551615,"sku":"9780804749053","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_23df021a-c770-4246-9c9a-cd1773364001.jpg?v=1681517421","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/shanghai-marie-claire-bergre-9780804749053","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}