Understanding Canton: Rethinking Popular Culture in the Republican Period - Studies on Contemporary China - Ho, Virgil (Hong Kong University of Science & Technology) - Books - Oxford University Press - 9780199282715 - December 22, 2005
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Understanding Canton: Rethinking Popular Culture in the Republican Period - Studies on Contemporary China

Ho, Virgil (Hong Kong University of Science & Technology)

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Understanding Canton: Rethinking Popular Culture in the Republican Period - Studies on Contemporary China

Aims to broaden our understanding of the culture and society of Canton, the largest metroplois in South China, in the period between the two World Wars. This title redresses serious misconceptions of the extent of damage inflicted by gambling, prostitution and opium consumption on the Cantonese society and its people.


534 pages, 16 pp halftone plates

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released December 22, 2005
ISBN13 9780199282715
Publishers Oxford University Press
Pages 528
Dimensions 163 × 242 × 36 mm   ·   979 g   (Weight (estimated))