03699nam 22005175 450 991111726240332120201028084219.09780520326859052032685710.1525/9780520326859(CKB)4100000011558930(DE-B1597)568367(DE-B1597)9780520326859(OCoLC)1202625549(MiAaPQ)EBC30771920(Au-PeEL)EBL30771920(OCoLC)1409029100(Perlego)4258411(EXLCZ)99410000001155893020201028h20201994 fg engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Beast in the Boudoir /Kathleen KeteReprint 2020Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2020]©19941 online resource (216 p.)9780520367708 0520367707 9780520326842 0520326849 Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Animal Protection in Nineteenth-Century Paris: The Case of Pets -- 2. The Notion of Fidelity in a Bourgeois World -- 3. The Embourgeoisement of the Beast -- 4. Dreamworlds of the Bourgeois Interior (1): Pets and Private Life -- 5. Dreamworlds of the Bourgeois Interior (2): Domesticity and the Dog-Care Book -- 6. La Rage and the Bourgeoisie -- 7. Cats and Categorization -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Kathleen Kete's wise and witty examination of petkeeping in nineteenth-century Paris provides a unique window through which to view the lives of ordinary French people. She demonstrates how that cliché of modern life, the family dog, reveals the tensions that modernity created for the Parisian bourgeoisie. Kete's study draws on a range of literary and archival sources, from dog-care books to veterinarians's records to Dumas's musings on his cat. The fad for aquariums, attitudes toward vivisection, the dread of rabies, the development of dog breeding--all are shown to reflect the ways middle-class people thought about their lives. Petkeeping, says Kete, was a way to imagine a better, more manageable version of the world--it relieved the pressures of contemporary life and improvised solutions to the intractable mesh that was post-Enlightenment France. The faithful, affectionate family dog became a counterpoint to the isolation of individualism and lack of community in urban life. By century's end, however, animals no longer represented the human condition with such potency, and even the irascible, autonomous cat had been rehabilitated into a creature of fidelity and affection. Full of fascinating details, this innovative book will contribute to the way we understand culture and the creation of class. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994.NON-CLASSIFIABLEbisacshNON-CLASSIFIABLE.305.5/5Kete Kathleenauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut791437DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9911117262403321The Beast in the Boudoir4791531UNINA04124nam 22007334a 450 991114892110332120251117115055.097866123566439781282356641128235664X978052092829905209282969781597345330159734533410.1525/9780520928299(CKB)111087027178646(EBL)223570(OCoLC)228045679(SSID)ssj0000121463(PQKBManifestationID)11910133(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000121463(PQKBWorkID)10110934(PQKB)11121953(StDuBDS)EDZ0000055858(OCoLC)52842306(MdBmJHUP)muse30638(DE-B1597)519199(DE-B1597)9780520928299(Au-PeEL)EBL223570(CaPaEBR)ebr10048763(CaONFJC)MIL235664(Perlego)552088(MiAaPQ)EBC223570(EXLCZ)9911108702717864620020806d2003 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrChinese capitalists in Japan's new order the occupied lower Yangzi, 1937-1945 /Parks M. Coble1st ed.Berkeley University of California Pressc20031 online resource (316 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9780520232686 0520232682 Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-274) and index.Surviving the fall of Shanghai -- Japan's new order -- Establishing control : the North China and Central China Development companies -- Puppet governments and Chinese capitalists -- Individual firms and the war experience -- The Rong family industrial enterprises and the war -- Textile and consumer industries in the war era : beyond the Rong model -- Chemical and match industrialists -- China's rubber industry.In this probing and original study, Parks M. Coble examines the devastating impact of Japan's invasion and occupation of the lower Yangzi on China's emerging modern business community. Arguing that the war gravely weakened Chinese capitalists, Coble demonstrates that in occupied areas the activities of businessmen were closer to collaboration than to heroic resistance. He shows how the war left an important imprint on the structure and culture of Chinese business enterprise by encouraging those traits that had allowed it to survive in uncertain and dangerous times.Although historical memory emphasizes the entrepreneurs who followed the Nationalists armies to the interior, most Chinese businessmen remained in the lower Yangzi area. If they wished to retain any ownership of their enterprises, they were forced to collaborate with the Japanese and the Wang Jingwei regime in Nanjing. Characteristics of business in the decades prior to the war, including a preference for family firms and reluctance to become public corporations, distrust of government, opaqueness of business practices, and reliance of personal connections (guanxi) were critical to the survival of enterprises during the war and were reinforced by the war experience. Through consideration of the broader implications of the many responses to this complex era, Chinese Capitalists in Japan's New Order makes a substantial contribution to larger discussions of the dynamics of World War II and of Chinese business culture.Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945Economic aspectsChinaShanghaiShanghai (China)Economic conditionsShanghai (China)Politics and governmentChinaForeign relationsJapanJapanForeign relationsChinaSino-Japanese War, 1937-1945Economic aspects330.951/132042Coble Parks M.1946-MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9911148921103321UNINA