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Between Heaven and Modernity - Reconstructing Suzhou, 1895-1937 (Hardcover)
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Between Heaven and Modernity - Reconstructing Suzhou, 1895-1937 (Hardcover)
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"In this engrossing cultural history, Peter Carroll has taken on
quite a few sacred cows from venerable historians who imagined an
eternal Suzhou to the founder of Chinese architectural history.
Other scholars have critiqued nationalistic history and Eurocentric
definitions of modernity, but Carroll has gone one step further;
taking as his analytic focus space in its discursive, symbolic, and
material formations, he has redefined the grounds of writing modern
Chinese history. Theoretically informed, meticulously researched
and smartly written, this book will be read for both what he said
and how he said it."--Dorothy Ko, Barnard College
"This marvelously rich book describes the ways in which ideas of
"tradition" and "modernity" are mapped onto symbolic spaces, such
as historical sites (whose presence and preservation are
re-imagined as essential to a modern republic) and new roads
(intended for industry, but instead co-opted by decadent leisure
practices). As the author shows us, in early twentieth-century
Suzhou, "tradition" became an object of consumption, while the much
sought after "modernity" proved chimerical and multifarious. The
author is to be commended for his attention to contradiction,
paradox, and irony, as well as his deft use of primary
sources."--Tobie Meyer-Fong, Johns Hopkins University and author of
Building Culture in Early Qing Yangzhou (Stanford University Press,
2003)
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