It takes the average reader 5 hours and 31 minutes to read Between Heaven and Modernity by Peter J. Carroll
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Combining social, political, and cultural history, this book examines the contestation over space, history, and power in the late Qing and Republican-era reconstruction of the ancient capital of Suzhou as a modern city. Located fifty miles west of Shanghai, Suzhou has been celebrated throughout Asia as a cynosure of Chinese urbanity and economic plenty for a thousand years. With the city's 1895 opening as a treaty port, businessmen and state officials began to draw on Western urban planning in order to bolster Chinese political and economic power against Japanese encroachment. As a result,...
Between Heaven and Modernity by Peter J. Carroll is 325 pages long, and a total of 82,875 words.
This makes it 110% the length of the average book. It also has 101% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 32 minutes to read Between Heaven and Modernity aloud.
Between Heaven and Modernity is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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