Exotic Commodities: Modern Objects and Everyday Life in China

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Exotic Commodities is the first book to chart the consumption and spread of foreign goods in China from the mid-nineteenth century to the advent of communism in 1949. Richly illustrated and revealing, this volume recounts how exotic commodities were acquired and adapted in a country commonly believed to have remained "hostile toward alien things" during the industrial era.

China was not immune to global trends that prized the modern...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0231141165

ISBN13:9780231141161

Release Date:March 2007

Publisher:Columbia University Press

Length:384 Pages

Weight:3.30 lbs.

Dimensions:1.3" x 7.8" x 10.0"

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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