Dwelling in the World: Family, House, and Home in Tianjin, China, 1860-1960 by E

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Dwelling in the World by Elizabeth LaCouture Elizabeth LaCouture considers family, house, and home in Tianjin to explore how everyday life changed with the fall of the Qing Empire and the rise of a colonized city. Dwelling in the World recasts Chinese social and cultural history, offering new lenses on gender and class, colonialism and empire, visual and material culture, and technology. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description By the early twentieth century, Chinese residents of the northern treaty-port city of Tianjin were dwelling in the world. Divided by nine foreign concessions, Tianjin was one of the worlds most colonized and cosmopolitan cities. Residents could circle the globe in an afternoon, strolling from a Chinese courtyard house through a Japanese garden past a French Beaux-Arts bank to dine at a German café and fall asleep in a British garden city-style semi-attached brick house.Dwelling in the World considers family, house, and home in Tianjin to explore how tempos and structures of everyday life changed with the fall of the Qing Empire and the rise of a colonized city. Elizabeth LaCouture argues that the intimate ideas and practices of the modern home were more important in shaping the gender and status identities of Tianjins urban elites than the new public ideology of the nation. Placing the Chinese home in a global context, she challenges Euro-American historical notions that the private sphere emerged from industrialization. She argues that concepts of individual property rights that emerged during the Republican era became foundational to state-society relations in early Communist housing reforms and in todays middle-class real estate boom.Drawing on diverse sources from municipal archives, womens magazines, and architectural field work to social surveys and colonial records, Dwelling in the World recasts Chinese social and cultural history, offering new perspectives on gender and class, colonialism and empire, visual and material culture, and technology and everyday life. Author Biography Elizabeth LaCouture is the founding director of the Gender Studies Program at the University of Hong Kong, where she is an assistant professor of gender studies and history. Table of Contents AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. Domestic Empires1. Unraveling the Chinese Empire2. Family in Ideology and Practice3. Property, Power, and Identity in a Colonial-Capitalist CityPart II. At Home in the World4. Choosing a House5. Designing House and Home6. Living at HomePart III. Chinese Social Spaces7. Engendering the Chinese City8. The Chinese Bourgeois Home in the Socialist WorldEpilogue: Historical Erasures and Chinas New Middle ClassNotesBibliographyIndex Review In this powerfully argued, deeply researched book, LaCouture helps us come to terms with how house and home in China generated new forms of status, domesticity, and modernity—and to appreciate the costs for Euro-American womens history of failing to countenance these histories. -- Antoinette Burton, author of Dwelling in the Archive: Women Writing House, Home and History in Late Colonial IndiaDwelling in the World shows how private homes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Tianjin functioned as contact zones in which the new middle class encountered and consumed the world. It opens up a previously unexplored archive that allows us to go well beyond the limitations of the written record. -- Jacob Eyferth, University of ChicagoDwelling in the World brilliantly presents Tianjin as a place where Chinese modernity was invented through daily life. LaCouture urges us to rethink jiating not as a repressive social institution, but as a material, financial, and affective space where Chinese men and women shaped their individual identities—an idea with important implications for the burgeoning middle class of todays China. -- Ruth Rogaski, author of Hygienic Modernity: Meanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port ChinaAnalyzing house plans and domestic advice columns, divorce suits and municipal disputes over water quality, this wide-ranging, original study reveals the ways that Chinese residents in the treaty port of Tianjin composed cosmopolitan conceptions of home. LaCouture recasts both the social space of treaty-port colonialism and Chinese modernity itself. -- Jordan Sand, author of Tokyo Vernacular: Common Spaces, Local Histories, Found ObjectsPresents a comprehensive analysis of a thriving middle class in cosmopolitan Tianjin that places women in a role theyve rarely occupied in historical narratives. * Asian Review of Books *LaCoutures broad-ranging study has set a new high standard for urban historians... -- Taoyu Yang * Urban History *A refreshing and thoughtful study on the changing ideas and practices of the family, house, and home through the analytical lenses of everyday experience and materiality. * Pacific Affairs * Review Quote Presents a comprehensive analysis of a thriving middle class in cosmopolitan Tianjin that places women in a role theyve rarely occupied in historical narratives. Details ISBN0231181795 Publisher Columbia University Press Year 2021 ISBN-10 0231181795 ISBN-13 9780231181792 Format Paperback Language English Imprint Columbia University Press Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Pages 376 NZ Release Date 2021-08-10 US Release Date 2021-08-10 Publication Date 2021-08-10 UK Release Date 2021-08-10 Author Elizabeth LaCouture Series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University Subtitle Family, House, and Home in Tianjin, China, 1860–1960 DEWEY 306.850951154 Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2021-08-09 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 30 DAY RETURN POLICY No questions asked, 30 day returns! FREE DELIVERY No matter where you are in the UK, delivery is free. 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