This book explores the play of international forces and international ideas about Shanghai, looking backward as far as its transformation into a subdivided treaty port in the 1840s, and looking forward to its upcoming hosting of China’s first World’s Fair, the 2010 Expo.
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Place: UK
Publication Year: 2008-11-25
Language: English
Number of Pages: 192
Edition: 1
Series: Asia's Transformations/Asia's Great Cities
Tracing development of scientific sociology from Comte onwards, this book provides a narrative history of figures, ideas, and schools that lie behind ..