How Long to Read Understanding Canton

How Long Does it Take to Read Understanding Canton?

It takes the average reader 9 hours and 12 minutes to read Understanding Canton by Virgil K. Y. Ho

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

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 this largest city of South China. The author examines how the Cantonese in this periodindulged in their imagined cultural superiority as "modern" citizens, ushering in a cult of the modern city. During this period, Cantonese opera was also emerging and evolving into a widely accepted form of commercialised mass entertainment. The process of social and cultural change and its impacton the development of this city and its people are revealed throughout the book. This book also aims to redress some major misconceptions of the socio-cultural realities as seen in official rhetoric or academic discourse on the matters of patriotism and anti-foreignism, gambling, prostitution, and opium consumption. Contemporary non-official and folk materials reveal that thecommon people were much more pro-Western than xenophobic in attitude, and the alleged social and political "calamities" of gambling, opium consumption and prostitution were more rhetorical than real. Understanding Canton provides us with, not only a fuller and more comprehensive picture of city lifeand popular mentalities, but also an important clue to understand how and why the social history of this city was distorted and constructed in ways that suited the political ideology and nation-building agenda of the ruling regimes.

How long is Understanding Canton?

Understanding Canton by Virgil K. Y. Ho is 537 pages long, and a total of 138,009 words.

This makes it 181% the length of the average book. It also has 169% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Understanding Canton Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 12 hours and 34 minutes to read Understanding Canton aloud.

What Reading Level is Understanding Canton?

Understanding Canton is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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