It takes the average reader 4 hours to read Mapping Modernity in Shanghai by Samuel Y. Liang
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This book argues that modernity first arrived in late nineteenth-century Shanghai via a new spatial configuration. This city’s colonial capitalist development ruptured the traditional configuration of self-contained households, towns, and natural landscapes in a continuous spread, producing a new set of fragmented as well as fluid spaces. In this process, Chinese sojourners actively appropriated new concepts and technology rather than passively responding to Western influences. Liang maps the spatial and material existence of these transient people and reconstructs a cultural geography that...
Mapping Modernity in Shanghai by Samuel Y. Liang is 240 pages long, and a total of 60,000 words.
This makes it 81% the length of the average book. It also has 73% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 27 minutes to read Mapping Modernity in Shanghai aloud.
Mapping Modernity in Shanghai is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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