Rudolf Wagner The largest and most influential Chinese-language publishing house in the late 19th century was the Shenbao guan in Shanghai. It was owned by foreigners, and run by Ernest Major. Its products were designed to fill the newly opening leisure time/space of urban residents. The company has been denounced since the late 1920s a […]
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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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