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Beyond the Neon Lights

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First published
1999
Pages
618

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The book 'Beyond the Neon Lights' is written by Hanchao Lu. 'Beyond the Neon Lights: Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century' is a historical study of Shanghai’s social, economic, and cultural transformation in the early 20th century. The book analyzes how ordinary people lived through the extraordinary changes that swept across modern China and how peasants transformed themselves into urbanites.

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Hanchao Lu

Hanchao Lu researches modern China through urban life, social change, and the experiences of people often missing from official narratives. A professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, he earned a UCLA doctorate in history and joined Georgia Tech in 1994.

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First published
1999
Reading time
About 12 hours
Pages
618
Language
English
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PDF, EPUB, MOBI, Read online