Republican Beijing(1st Edition) The City and Its Histories (Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes) by MadeleineYueDong, Thomas Bender Hardcover, 403 Pages, Published 2003 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-23050-7, ISBN: 0-520-23050-7
"Old Beijing has become a subject of growing fascination in contemporary China since the 1980s. While physical remnants from the past are being bulldozed every day to make space for glass-walled skyscrapers and towering apartment buildings, nostalgia for the old city is booming. Madeleine Yue Dong offers the first comprehensive history of Republican Beijing, examining how the capital acquired its identity as a consummately "traditional" ..."
"During the 1920s and 1930s, in cities from Beijing to Bombay, Tokyo to Berlin, Johannesburg to New York, the Modern Girl made her sometimes flashy, always fashionable appearance in city streets and cafes, in films, advertisements, and illustrated magazines. Modern Girls wore sexy clothes and high heels; they applied lipstick and other cosmetics. Dressed in provocative attire, in hot pursuit of romantic love, Modern Girls appeared on the ..."
"Is modernity in non-Western societies always an "alternative" modernity, a derivative copy of an "original modernity" that began in the West? No, answer the contributors to this book, who then offer an absorbing set of case studies from modern China to make their point. By focusing on people's ordinary routines of working, eating, going to school, and traveling, the authors examine the notion of modernity as it has been staged in the mi ..."
"During the 1920s and 1930s, in cities from Beijing to Bombay, Tokyo to Berlin, Johannesburg to New York, the Modern Girl made her sometimes flashy, always fashionable appearance in city streets and cafes, in films, advertisements, and illustrated magazines. Modern Girls wore sexy clothes and high heels; they applied lipstick and other cosmetics. Dressed in provocative attire and in hot pursuit of romantic love, Modern Girls appeared on ..."
"Visualizing Modern China: Image, History, and Memory, 1750 Present offers a sophisticated yet accessible interpretation of modern Chinese history through visual imagery. With rich illustrations and a companion website, it is an ideal textbook for college-level courses on modern Chinese history and on modern visual culture. The introduction provides a methodological framework and historical overview, while the chronologically arranged ch ..."
"Visualizing Modern China: Image, History, and Memory, 1750 Present offers a sophisticated yet accessible interpretation of modern Chinese history through visual imagery. With rich illustrations and a companion website, it is an ideal textbook for college-level courses on modern Chinese history and on modern visual culture. The introduction provides a methodological framework and historical overview, while the chronologically arranged ch ..."
"—HENRI LEFEBvRE, Everyday Life in the Modern World In the prefatory remarks
to his famed 1903 pamphlet Nüjie zhong (A bell for the women's world), the
social critic Jin Yi commented, “There is not a place in today's world where male
domination of women has not triumphed; if they are not treated as playthings,
then they are used as colonized territory [kou bu yiwei wanhao, zi yiwei zhimindi
ye].”1 This remark eaectively introduced J ..."
Asia Local Studies / Global Themes Republican Beijing : The City and Its Histories 8 by MadeleineYueDong 403 Pages, Published 2003 by Univ Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-92763-6, ISBN: 0-520-92763-X
"Liang Sicheng, “Beijing.” 15. Kinchen Johnson, Folksongs and Children-Songs
from Beiping (n.p., 1971). 16. Bredon, Peking, p. 18. 17. Ibid. 18. Ibid., p. 29. 19.
Ibid., p. 36. 20. Ibid., p. 37. 21. Ibid., p. 39. 22. These were the most active
shopping areas in the commercial district outside Zhengyang Gate. 23. January
15 in the Chinese lunar calendar, the day of the Lantern Festival and the last day
of the Spring Festival celebrat ..."
"Consumption, Modernity, and Globalization Alys Eve The Modern Girl around the
World Research Group, Alys Eve Weinbaum, Lynn M. Thomas, Priti Ramamurthy,
Uta G. Poiger, Madeleine Yue Dong, Tani E. Barlow. Modern Girls were working
girls, ''factory youth'' for whom the silk stockings and red lipstick signified that the
consumer of these goods was ''modern,'' though not necessarily Western or
bourgeois. Sato's chapter on the Japanese ..."
Beijing(1st Edition) by MadeleineYueDong, David Strand Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2008 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-24439-8, ISBN: 0-415-24439-0
"The history and present character of the amazing city of Beijing are examined here in this exciting new text."
"Bringing together the work of distinguished China historians, anthropologists, and literary and film scholars, Gender in Motion raises provocative questions about the diversity of gender practices during the late imperial society and the persistence and transformation of older gender ideologies under the conditions of modernity in China. While several studies have investigated gender or labor in late imperial and twentieth century China ..."
"Bringing together the work of distinguished China historians, anthropologists, and literary and film scholars, Gender in Motion raises provocative questions about the diversity of gender practices during the late imperial society and the persistence and transformation of older gender ideologies under the conditions of modernity in China. While several studies have investigated gender or labor in late imperial and twentieth century China ..."