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Full referenceYeh, Wen-hsin, “Shanghai Modernity: Commerce and Culture in A Republican City” (1997)
TypeJournal article
Author(s)Yeh, Wen-hsin
Title“Shanghai Modernity: Commerce and Culture in A Republican City”
Year1997
JournalChina Quarterly
Number150
Start page375
End page394
LanguageEnglish
SubjectHistory
Keywordssocial; culture; economy
AbstractThe emergence of modernity in Shanghai has been studied from two approaches. The Weberian approach looked at the interplay of Shanghai as an economic power and its dependence and influence on the state. Shanghai, for all its modernity and Western influence, failed to democratize China. The second approach looked at commerce and the new culture. Shanghai became the largest city in China because of Western technology and the promotion of national products through innovative advertising. A new image for women, the growth of a white-collar class, and the idealization of the nuclear family gave birth to a new urban middle-class culture. The new Shanghai was quite unlike any city in traditional China.
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