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The Teahouse Under Socialism
Language: en
Pages: 326
Authors: Di Wang
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-06-15 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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This text explores urban public life through the microcosm of the Chengdu teahouse. Like most public spaces, the teahouse was and still is an enduring symbol of
The Teahouse Under Socialism
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Di Wang
Categories: Chengdu (China)
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018 - Publisher:

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To understand a city fully, writes Di Wang, we must observe its most basic units of social life. In The Teahouse under Socialism, Wang does just that, arguing t
The Teahouse under Socialism
Language: en
Pages: 385
Authors: Di Wang
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-06-15 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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To understand a city fully, writes Di Wang, we must observe its most basic units of social life. In The Teahouse under Socialism, Wang does just that, arguing t
The Teahouse
Language: en
Pages: 377
Authors: Di Wang
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: Stanford University Press

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This study examines economic, social, political, and cultural changes as funneled through the teahouses of Chengdu during the first half of the twentieth centur
Violence and Order on the Chengdu Plain
Language: en
Pages: 376
Authors: Di Wang
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-03-27 - Publisher: Stanford University Press

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In 1939, residents of a rural village near Chengdu watched as Lei Mingyuan, a member of a violent secret society known as the Gowned Brothers, executed his teen