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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)
Understanding Canton: Rethinking Popular Culture in the Republican Period - Studies on Contemporary China
Ho, Virgil (Hong Kong University of Science & Technology)
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)) |