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Admirably compact and coherent, Inventing Nanjing Road is an excellent sampler of current research on the development of business, advertisement, entertainment, and urban life-styles in modern Shanghai. The essays in this volume, which introduce the field's intellectual issues, as well as the colorful sources available to address them, will attract new researchers to the field. For use in undergraduate and graduate classes on Chinese urban history. * Journal of Asian Studies * Provides a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of how commercial culture was constructed in Shanghai in the first decades of the twentieth century. * Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies *

Admirably compact and coherent, Inventing Nanjing Road is an excellent sampler of current research on the development of business, advertisement, entertainment, and urban life-styles in modern Shanghai. The essays in this volume, which introduce the field's intellectual issues, as well as the colorful sources available to address them, will attract new researchers to the field. For use in undergraduate and graduate classes on Chinese urban history. --Journal of Asian Studies Provides a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of how commercial culture was constructed in Shanghai in the first decades of the twentieth century. --Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

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The volume editor, Sherman Cochran, is Professor of History at Cornell University.

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