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Article: Beyond the Neon Lights: Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century.(Review)
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- Canadian Journal of History
- Article date:
- December 1, 2000
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Beyond the Neon Lights: Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century, by Hanchao Lu. Berkeley, California. University of California Press, 1999. xvii, 456 pp. $50.00 U.S. (cloth).
This is a much welcomed addition to the now rather large corpus of western language books on early twentieth-century Shanghai. While Shanghai might or might not be the "Paris of the East," with Professor Lu's book, no serious students would be able to think or write about the city again without paying attention also to the lives of the "little" people.
Beyond the Neon Lights is divided into three parts. Part 1, "In Search of an Urban Identity," provides an overview of the ...