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

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (289 p.)
• Disciplina: 303.48/251009041; 303.48251; 303.48251009041
• Soggetto topico: Visitors, Foreign - China - History - 20th century
• Soggetto geografico: China Relations 20th century; China Foreign relations 1912-1949; China Social conditions 1912-1949; China Economic conditions 1912-1949
• Altri autori: BradyAnne-Marie <1966-> BrownDouglas <1961->
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Foreigners and foreign institutions in republican China
• ISBN: 1-136-25249-5; 1-283-60701-8; 9786613919465; 1-136-25250-9; 0-203-10512-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910809904303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Chinese Worlds