Download or read book Peking written by Juliet Bredon and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the British Museum Library written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Exotic Commodities written by Frank Dikötter and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-27 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exotic Commodities is the first book to chart the consumption and spread of foreign goods in China from the mid-nineteenth century to the advent of communism in 1949. Richly illustrated and revealing, this volume recounts how exotic commodities were acquired and adapted in a country commonly believed to have remained "hostile toward alien things" during the industrial era. China was not immune to global trends that prized the modern goods of "civilized" nations. Foreign imports were enthusiastically embraced by both the upper and lower classes and rapidly woven into the fabric of everyday life, often in inventive ways. Scarves, skirts, blouses, and corsets were combined with traditional garments to create strikingly original fashions. Industrially produced rice, sugar, wheat, and canned food revolutionized local cuisine, and mass produced mirrors were hung on doorframes to ward off malignant spirits. Frank Dikötter argues that ordinary people were the least inhibited in acquiring these products and therefore the most instrumental in changing the material culture of China. Landscape paintings, door leaves, and calligraphy scrolls were happily mixed with kitschy oil paintings and modern advertisements. Old and new interacted in ways that might have seemed incongruous to outsiders but were perfectly harmonious to local people. This pragmatic attitude would eventually lead to China's own mass production and export of cheap, modern goods, which today can be found all over the world. The nature of this history raises the question, which Dikötter pursues in his conclusion: If the key to surviving in a fast-changing world is the ability to innovate, could China be more in tune with modernity than Europe?

Download or read book Tr bner s Bibliographical Catalogues written by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bulletin of the Public Library of the City of Boston written by Boston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bulletin of the Public Library of the City of Boston written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1054 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Booklist written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bulletin 1908 23 written by Boston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A L A Booklist written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Booklist written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Publishers Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Publishers Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Book Review Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Library Record written by Free Public Library of Jersey City and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Library Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Subject index of the London Library St James s Square London written by London Library and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 1112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: