{"product_id":"shanghai-love-9780295985671","title":"Shanghai Love","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExplores the Shanghai entertainment world at the close of the Qing dynasty. With illustrations from newspapers, novels, travel guides, and postcards, as well as written descriptions of life in Shanghai, this study traces the influences among courtesans, intellectuals, and the city itself in creating a market-oriented leisure culture in China.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In this meticulously researched and beautifully illustrated book, Catherine Yeh celebrates the centrality of the elite courtesan in the transformation of Shanghai to a modern metropolis. Although books about Shanghai abound..Yeh's book is unique in its approach. \u003ci\u003eShanghai Love\u003c\/i\u003e is an important contribution to Chinese urban and media history. Readers will profit from Catherine Yeh's insightful analysis of the literature and visual culture that helped fashion this important metropolis in the nineteenth century.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * China Review International *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eShanghai Love\u003c\/i\u003e argues for the centrality of elite courtesans to the late Qing Shanghai entertainment industry, to the development of the city more generally, and even more broadly, to the enterprise of 'Chinese modernity' . . . [and] give[s] us a rich sense of the variety and complexity of the techniques and tropes through which the myth of the Shanghai courtesan is constructed . . . . \u003ci\u003eShanghai Love\u003c\/i\u003e makes an important contribution to the study of urban history, literature, gender, and visual culture in the late Qing and Republican eras.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * The Journal of Asian Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Modeling the Modern: Courtesan Fashion, Furniture, and Manners in Late-Nineteenth-Century Shanghai\u003cbr\u003e 2. \u003ci\u003eShanghai Love\u003c\/i\u003e: New Rules of the Game\u003cbr\u003e 3. Playground Shanghai: Reenacting Dream of the Red Chamber\u003cbr\u003e 4. Image Makers: The Settlements' Men of Letters and Shanghai Print Entertainment\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Public Flower of the City and the Media Star\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Image of the Shanghai Courtesan in Late Qing Illustrated Fiction\u003cbr\u003e 7. Guides to Paradise: Entertainment in the Formation of Shanghai's Identity\u003cbr\u003e 8. Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Glossary\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Washington Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400913953111,"sku":"9780295985671","price":78.14,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780295985671.jpg?v=1730471932","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/shanghai-love-9780295985671","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}