Xavier Paules The fact that opium took root very quickly in China during the first decades of the nineteenth century is well-known and has driven the attention of many scholars. In order to explain it, they came out with a series of reasons that made Chinese society prone to take up the habit in such […]
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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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