In this fascinating book, Catherine Yeh explores the Shanghai entertainment world at the close of the Qing dynasty. Established in the 1850s outside of the old walled city, the Shanghai Foreign Settle
The political novel, which enjoyed a steep yet short rise to international renown between the 1830s and the 1910s, is primarily concerned with the nation’s political future. It offers a characterizati
Scholars of history, art, and literature explore the changing constructs of masculinities and femininities in the two Asian countries from the modern arrival of Western influence to World War II. They
