Christian Henriot

Wen-hsin Yeh

In Visualizing China, the authors launch a broad inquiry aimed at a synergistic understanding of the story of visuality in modern China. The essays cluster around several nodal points including photographs, advertising, posters and movies, from the 1840s to the 1960s.

Moving and Still Images in Historical Narratives

Visualising China, 1845-1965

Alain Delissen

Les métropoles chinoises au XXe siècle

Henriot portrays the sex trade in Shanghai, from the life of the courtesan to street prostitution.

A Social History, 1849-1949

Prostitution and Sexuality in Shanghai

Robert Bickers

"This volume will be of interest to students and scholars of the history and anthropology of imperialism, colonialism's culture, and East Asian history."--Jacket.

Imperialism's New Communities in East Asia, 1842-1953

New Frontiers

The issue of death has loomed large in Chinese cities in the modern era. Throughout the Republican period, Shanghai swallowed up lives by the thousands. Exposed bodies strewn around in public spaces were a threat to social order as well as to public health. In a place where every group had its own beliefs and set of death and funeral practices, how did they adapt to a modern, urbanized environment? How did the interactions of social organizations and state authorities manage these new ways of thinking and acting? Recent historiography has almost completely ignored the ways in which death created such immense social change in China. Now, Scythe and the City corrects this problem. Christian Henriot's pioneering and original study of Shanghai between 1865 and 1965 offers new insights into this crucial aspect of modern society in a global commercial hub and guides readers through this tumultuous era that radically redefined the Chinese relationship with death.

A Social History of Death in Shanghai

Scythe and the City

In the new world order mapped out by Japanese and Western imperialism in East Asia after the mid-nineteenth century opium wars, communities of merchants and settlers took root in China and Korea. New identities were constructed, new modes of collaboration formed and new boundaries between the indigenous and foreign communities were literally and figuratively established. Newly available in paperback, this pioneering and comparative study of Western and Japanese imperialism examines European, American and Japanese communities in China and Korea, and challenges received notions of agency and collaboration by also looking at the roles in China of British and Japanese colonial subjects from Korea, Taiwan and India, and at Chinese Christians and White Russian refugees. This volume will be of interest to students and scholars of the history and anthropology of imperialism, colonialism’s culture and East Asian history, as well as contemporary Asian affairs.

Imperialism's new communities in East Asia, 1842–1953

New frontiers

Lu SHI

Charlotte Aubrun

The Population of Shanghai (1865-1953) is the first systematic reconstruction of the demographic series of the population of Shanghai from the mid-nineteenth century to 1953 based on a thorough exploration of all available population data and surveys.

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