Dwelling in the World. Family, House, and Home in Tianjin, China, 1860-1960.
New York. Columbia University Press. (c. 2021). Stock ID #216663 This book considers family, house, and home in Tianjin to explore how tempos and structures of everyday life changed with the fall of the Qing Empire and the rise of a colonized city. Elizabeth LaCouture argues that the intimate ideas and practices of the modern home were more important in shaping the gender and status identities of Tianjin's urban elites than the new public ideology of the nation. Placing the Chinese home in a global context, she challenges Euro-American historical notions that the private sphere emerged from industrialization. She argues that concepts of individual property rights that emerged during the Republican era became foundational to state-society relations in early Communist housing reforms and in today's middle-class real estate boom. (Publisher's description) When referring to this item please quote stockid 216663.
Black and white photographic illustrations, ix + 364pp, notes, bibliography, index. Upper cover corner trifle bumped, excellent paperback copy.
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