Through a study of the readership of the most popular commercial daily newspaper in China during the early twentieth century, Reading Shenbao investigates ideas of nationalism, consumerism and individuality, looking at the relationship between advertising, modern lifestyles and changing social attitudes in China as it underwent modernization.

Auteur
WEIPIN TSAI is a historian of modern China, specializing in political, regional trading and socio-economic interests from the late Qing to the Republican period, including globalization and colonial influence in China, and consumerism in daily life. She is currently a lecturer in the History Department of Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.

Contenu
Table of Figures Acknowledgements Glossary Introduction Patriotism and Gracious Living in Tobacco Advertising Saving for Happiness - Individual Banking Accounts Advertisements The Modern Housewife - A New Kind of Shanghai Woman Shame, Guilt, and National Products Ziyoutan Revisited The Literature Supplement and Its Writers Re-defining Shenbao's Readership Postscript: On ambivalent individualities Bibliography References