Exotic Commodities: Modern Objects and Everyday Life in China

by Frank Dikötter

Exotic Commodities is the first book to chart the consumption and spread of foreign goods in China from the mid-nineteenth century to the advent of communism in 1949. Richly illustrated and revealing, this volume recounts how exotic commodities were acquired and adapted in a country commonly believed to have remained "hostile toward alien things" during the industrial era.

China was not immune to global trends that prized the modern...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231141165
• ISBN13: 9780231141161
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 3.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.8" x 10.0"