Bøker av Bryna Goodman

When a young woman killed herself in the office she shared with her employer in 1920s Shanghai, the city reeled in shock. Xi Shangzhen became a symbol of the failures of the Chinese Republic as well as the broken promises of citizens' rights, gender equality, and financial prosperity that were betokened by liberal democracy and capitalism.

This text explores the role of native place associations in the development of modern Chinese urban society and the role of native-place identity in the development of urban nationalism.