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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809904303321

Titolo

Foreigners and foreign institutions in republican China / / edited by Anne-Marie Brady and Douglas Brown

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-25249-5

1-283-60701-8

9786613919465

1-136-25250-9

0-203-10512-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Collana

Chinese worlds ; ; 30

Altri autori (Persone)

BradyAnne-Marie <1966->

BrownDouglas <1961->

Disciplina

303.48/251009041

303.48251

303.48251009041

Soggetti

Visitors, Foreign - China - History - 20th century

China Relations 20th century

China Foreign relations 1912-1949

China Social conditions 1912-1949

China Economic conditions 1912-1949

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of contributors; Introduction: foreign bodies; PART I Heterotopic China; 1 The Italian production of space in Tianjin: heterotopia and emotional capital; 2 Lending words: foreign language education and teachers in Republican Peking; 3 Redefining institutional identity: the YWCA challenge to extraterritoriality in China, 1925-1930; 4 Comintern activists in China: spies or theorists?; 5 Observations of the political and economic situation in China by the British mercantile community during the civil war, 1945-1949

PART II Shanghaied: morality tales from the Paris of the East6 Shanghai three ways: the 1930s view from Tokyo, Paris and Shanghai; 7



Adventurers, aesthetes and tourists: foreign homosexuals in Republican China; 8 Sissywood vs. Alleyman: going nose to nose in Shanghai; 9 Takeda Taijun in Shanghai: recollections of Republican China and Imperial Japan; PART III With China at war; 10 "What is it makes the stranger?": Robin Hyde in China; 11 Italians in Nationalist China (1928-1945): some case studies

12 Struggling through times of darkness and despair: Korean Communists from the anti-Japanese resistance to the Chinese Civil WarIndex

Sommario/riassunto

Republican China attracted an uncommon diversity of foreign interests, groups, and individuals, which included missionaries, adventurers, diplomats, academics, humanitarians and refugees, as well as hedonists and tourists. By exploring the diverse nature of foreign activities in Republican China, this book complicates the dominant narratives of the imperialistic foreigner and Chinese victim, and moves beyond the depiction of foreigners as privileged and the Chinese as simply weak. The spaces and relationships examined in the essays in this volume reveal a complex series of interactions betw