Yu-chih Lai Starting in the 1880s, there appeared in Shenbao many advertisements selling imported Japanese books. Most of them were illustrated painting manuals brought by very specific bookstores or individuals, such as Wang Yemei, the Shanghai painter who sojourned in Japan. This phenomenon went beyond the ordinary advertisements in Shenbao and had been well observed […]
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Abstracts
- The Prices of Antiques in the Late Qing Market
- Building Leisure out of National Trauma: Tourism and Consumption along the Korean Demilitarized Zone
- Money, Networking, and Leisure: Selling Japanese Books in Shanghai, 1880-1911
- Tourism and Consumer Citizenship in Contemporary China
- The Unexpected End of a Success Story: Opium 1800-1906
- Leisure and Consumption in Java’s Middle Class
- On the Cleanliness of Money. The Public Posture of the Shenbao Publishing House in Shanghai, 1872-1890
- The Worker-and-Peasant Duo as Currency of Images: Socialist Subjectivity and Post-Socialist Mediality
- Leisure, Ritual and Choice in Modern Chinese Societies
- The Price of Perfection in the Japanese Cafe
- Private Mansion as Public stage: Money and Stardom
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