Cities in motion : urban life and cosmopolitanism in Southeast Asia, 1920-1940 / Su Lin Lewis, University of Bristol.
"In the 1920s and 1930s, the port cities of Southeast Asia were staging grounds for diverse groups of ordinary citizens to experiment with modernity, as a rising Japan and the growth of American capitalism challenged the predominance of European empires after the First World War. Both migrants...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom :
Cambridge University Press,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Seeing through the city
- Maritime commerce, old rivalries, and the birth of three cities
- Asian port cities in a turbulent age
- Cosmopolitan publics in divided societies
- Newsprint, wires, and the reading public
- Playgrounds, classrooms, and politics
- Gramophones, cinema halls, and bobbed hair
- Epilogue. Cosmopolitan legacies.