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BL
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1014287
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b768657
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| Main Entry
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Ho, Virgil K. Y.
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| Title & Author
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Understanding Canton : : rethinking popular culture in the republican period /\ Virgil K.Y. Ho.
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| Publication Statement
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Oxford ;New York :: Oxford University Press,, 2005.
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| Series Statement
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Studies on contemporary China
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| Page. NO
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vi, 510 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :: illustrations ;; 24 cm.
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| ISBN
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0199282714
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: 9780199282715
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction -- City versus countryside : the growth of an urban identity and its meanings in Canton -- The limits of hatred : popular attitudes towards the West in Republican Canton -- The 'problem' of opium smoking in Canton -- Gambling in Canton : myth and reality of a calamity -- The worlds of prostitution in the early republic -- Cantonese opera as a mirror of society -- Conclusion.
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| Abstract
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"By studying six different aspects of culture in Canton in the period between the two World Wars, this book helps broaden our limited knowledge of the social and cultural lives of the common people in the largest city of South China. The author examines how the Cantonese in this period indulged in their imagined cultural superiority as 'modern' citizens, ushering in a cult of the modern city."--Jacket.
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Popular culture-- China-- Guangzhou-- History-- 20th century.
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Popular culture-- China-- Guangzhou-- History-- 20th century.
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Popular culture.
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Social conditions
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Glücksspiel.
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Glücksspiel.
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Prostitution.
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Prostitution.
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Sozialer Wandel.
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Sozialer Wandel.
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Volkskultur.
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Volkskultur.
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Yueju (Guangdong)
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Yueju (Guangdong)
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Guangzhou (China), Social conditions, 20th century.
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China, Guangzhou.
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Guangdong.
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Guangdong.
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Guangzhou (China), Social conditions, 20th century.
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| Dewey Classification
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306.0951/27509042
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| LC Classification
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HN740.G823H6 2005
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