Madmen In Shanghai

Author : Cécile Armand
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111390004
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Madmen in Shanghai written by Cécile Armand and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madmen in Shanghai: A Social History of Advertising in Modern China (1914–1956) provides a novel perspective on the emergence of Chinese consumer society through an extensive historical investigation of the advertising industry in pre-Communist China. Utilizing a diverse array of previously unexplored primary sources, including professional literature, newspapers, photographs, and municipal archives, it charts the development and growing influence of the advertising profession, fostered by professional organizations, agencies, and prominent practitioners. It underscores the crucial role of this hybrid and transnational profession in introducing an expanding array of consumer products and in shaping the enduring narrative of the “four hundred million customers.” This book will be of interest to scholars specializing in modern Chinese history, urban and consumer studies, media and mass communication, and also for professionals engaged in the fields of advertising and marketing.

Author : Cécile Armand
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9783111388243
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Madmen in Shanghai written by Cécile Armand and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2024-07-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madmen in Shanghai: A Social History of Advertising in modern China (1914-1956) provides a novel perspective on the emergence of Chinese consumer society through an extensive historical investigation of the advertising industry in pre-Communist China. Utilizing a diverse array of previously unexplored primary sources, including professional literature, newspapers, photographs, and municipal archives, it charts the development and growing influence of the advertising profession, fostered by professional organizations, agencies, and prominent practitioners. It underscores the crucial role of this hybrid and transnational profession in introducing an expanding array of consumer products and in shaping the enduring narrative of the "four hundred million customers." This book will be of interest to scholars specializing in modern Chinese history, urban and consumer studies, media and mass communication, and also for professionals engaged in the fields of advertising and marketing.

Author : Adolphe Clarence Scott
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299088606
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Actors are Madmen written by Adolphe Clarence Scott and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A. C. Scott's first visit to China in 1946 marked the beginning of a personal involvement with that nation's people and culture that would prove singular in its intensity, intimacy, and joy. Now, more than three decades later, an eminent Western authority on Asian theatre looks back on those early years of discovery in a memoir that is at once compelling drama and vividly etched history. This is an explorer's impressions of a world which few foreigners have ever seen and a scholar's unique depiction of pre-liberation China, its society, customs, and theatre, before the final curtain fell. For anyone interested in Chinese culture, history, or drama, or intrigued by the increasingly rare genre of travelogue, Scott's achievement will prove both enjoyable and invaluable.

Author : Jeremy Tambling
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 962209824X
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Madmen and Other Survivors written by Jeremy Tambling and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2007-02-01 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madmen and Other Survivors: Reading Lu Xun's Fiction puts the short stories written by this outstanding Chinese writer between 1918 and 1926 into a broad context of Modernism. The fiction of Lu Xun (1881–1936) deals with the China moving beyond the 1911 Revolution. He asks about the possibilities of survival, and what that means, even considering the possibility that madness might be a strategy by which that is possible. Such an idea calls identity into question, and Lu Xun is read here as a writer for whom that is a wholly problematic concept. The book makes use of critical and cultural theory to consider these short stories in the context of not only Chinese fiction, but in terms of the art of the short story, and in relation to literary modernism. It attempts to put Lu Xun into as wide a perspective as possible for contemporary reading. To make his work widely accessible, he is treated here in English translation.

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Total Pages : 698 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The National Review, China written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edward Whittemore
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480433888
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quin's Shanghai Circus written by Edward Whittemore and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVDIVIn Edward Whittemore’s masterful and surreal alternate history, a man’s search for answers about his vanished parents propels him on an odyssey from the present into the past, from a bar in the Bronx to Tokyo and Shanghai during the Second World War /divDIV Quin, born in China and raised in the Bronx, is orphaned in the closing days of the Second World War when his parents go missing and are presumed dead in Shanghai. Years later, in a Bronx bar, Quin encounters a stranger who hints that he can uncover the secrets of his past by accompanying Big Gobi, an adult orphan too simpleminded to travel alone, on a journey to meet his guardian in Tokyo. Quin arrives in Japan determined to uncover the truth about his parents’ past, but his search soon raises more questions than answers. What are the connections between a Russian anarchist, a one-eyed baron who is head of the Japanese secret service known as the Kempeitai, and the atrocities committed during the rape of Nanking? And what does any of it have to do with Quin’s parents?/divDIV Part espionage novel and part surreal fantasy, Quin’s Shanghai Circus, the first novel by Edward Whittemore, is a remarkable and audacious literary feat. Alive with a fascinating cast of characters and equally enthralling turns of events, former CIA officer Whittemore offers readers a mesmerizing glimpse at a secret history of the twentieth century./divDIV/div/div

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Total Pages : 748 pages
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Download or read book National Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peijie Mao
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498544797
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Popular Magazines and Fiction in Shanghai, 1914–1925 written by Peijie Mao and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the rise of Shanghai-based popular magazines produced by the “Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies School” in early twentieth-century China. It examines the national, gender, family, and social imaginaries constructed and negotiated through a complex network of relationships between popular writers, magazine editors, and their intended readers, which were represented in various forms of popular narratives, including patriotic stories, war/military stories, family narratives, domestic fiction, utopian writings, and industrial-business stories. The author argues that the national imagination, social ideals, and the notions of ideal womanhood and the new family, were intrinsically linked and integral to the search for cultural identity of the emerging Chinese “middle society” and an expression of their collective sensibilities, experiences, and aspirations. This book suggests that the cultural imaginaries configurated in these magazine stories articulated a shared quest for modernity, one that emphasized sentiment, quotidian experience, the pursuit of the modern family and individual success, strengthening of the nation, and the reinvention of cultural tradition. Popular magazines and fiction, therefore, became uniquely instrumental in catalyzing the process of Chinese modernity, which emerged and developed along the symbiotic interrelations between the private and the public, the traditional and the modern, and the real and the imaginary.

Author : Carl Hiaasen
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453210717
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Death in China written by Carl Hiaasen and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2010-12-28 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An American investigates a murder amid the secrecy and corruption of China in this crime thriller from the New York Times–bestselling author of Razor Girl. Art history professor Tom Stratton hasn’t seen his former mentor David Wang for years—until they unexpectedly run into each other while Stratton is on a guided tour of China. But the reunion doesn’t last long. After Wang is found dead—and the American embassy fumbles the investigation—Stratton sets out to solve the mystery of the killing on his own. Before long, he’s tangled in a web of corruption that reaches the highest seats of power. Beset by the suffocating secrecy and subterfuge of communist China, Stratton must find his friend’s murderer—before the fury of a brutal conspiracy closes in on him. Along with Powder Burn and Trap Line, this international mystery is one of the early suspense thrillers written by Carl Hiaasen and Bill Montalbano, a writing team praised for their “fine flair for characters and settings” (Library Journal).

Author : Frederic Wakeman Jr.
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520918658
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Policing Shanghai, 1927-1937 written by Frederic Wakeman Jr. and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1995-02-17 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prewar Shanghai: casinos, brothels, Green Gang racketeers, narcotics syndicates, gun-runners, underground Communist assassins, Comitern secret agents. Frederic Wakeman's masterful study of the most colorful and corrupt city in the world at the time provides a panoramic view of the confrontation and collaboration between the Nationalist secret police and the Shanghai underworld. In detailing the life and politics of China's largest urban center during the Guomindang era, Wakeman covers an array of topics: the puritanical social controls implemented by the police; the regional differences that surfaced among Shanghai's Chinese, the influence of imperialism and Western-trained officials. Parts of this book read like a spy novel, with secret police, torture, assassination; and power struggles among the French, International Settlement, and Japanese consular police within Shanghai. Chiang Kai-shek wanted to prove that the Chinese could rule Shanghai and the country by themselves, rather than be exploited and dominated by foreign powers. His efforts to reclaim the crime-ridden city failed, partly because of the outbreak of war with Japan in 1937, but also because the Nationalist police force was itself corrupted by the city. Wakeman's exhaustively researched study is a major contribution to the study of the Nationalist regime and to modern Chinese urban history. It also shows that twentieth-century China has not been characterized by discontinuity, because autocratic government—whether Nationalist or Communist—has prevailed.