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Global Shanghai, 1850–2010
A History in Fragments
Series: Asia's Transformations/Asia's Great Cities
This book explores the play of international forces and international ideas about Shanghai, looking backward as far as its transformation into a subdivided treaty port in the 1840s, and looking forward to its upcoming hosting of China’s first World’s Fair, the 2010 Expo. As such, Global Shanghai is...
Published November 24th 2008 by Routledge
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Twentieth-Century China
New Approaches
Series: Rewriting Histories
Twentieth Century China: New Approaches is an important revisionist study of China's recent past. The chapters throw light on a variety of subjects within the field, which has recently undergone considerable change. The three major parts of this reader take into account the historical shape of the...
Published November 6th 2002 by Routledge