The “Paradise” after Disaster
City Life of Suzhou during the Period of the Anti-Japanese War
by Jen-shu Wu
Description
This book presents Suzhou’s ‘abnormally prosperous’ city life during the Second Sino-Japanese War through studying four leisure trades in Suzhou – tea houses, restaurants, hotels and opium dens. The book reverses the perceived wisdom about an occupied area where it is destined to be war-torn, to endure economic recession and business, financial and industrial sectors shrinkage. This book examines people’s everyday life through contextualizing a city in the bigger picture of an epoch while enquiring into people’s consuming habits and the crowd psychology in that abnormal prosperity.
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- Publisher National Taiwan University Press
- Publication Date July 2017
- Orginal LanguageChinese complex
- ISBN/Identifier 9789863502364
- Publication Country or regionTaiwan
- FormatPaperback
- Pages316
- ReadershipCollege/Tertiary Education
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language Title劫後「天堂」：抗戰淪陷後的蘇州城市生活
- Original Language Authors巫仁恕
- Edition1st edition
- Copyright Year2017
- Dimensions21x14.8 cm
- SeriesHistoriography Series
- Series Part6
