Beyond the neon lights : everyday Shanghai in the early twentieth century /
"Today, in the post-Mao, post-Deng era, China faces a vigorous resurgence of paradoxes similar to those that surfaced at the end of the imperial era. At the same time, the pragmatism of the Chinese people endures, suggesting that the lessons of the past have broad implications for urban China a...
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| Langue: | anglais |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©1999.
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Table des matières:
- Urban-rural relations: a continuum or a gulf?
- The city and modernity: the making of a commercial culture
- How "China-centered" are we?
- In search of an urban identity
- Going to Shanghai
- From segregation to mixed residence
- From the "five lakes and four seas"
- Dragons and fishes jumbled together
- The world of rickshaws
- Rickshaws
- Rickshaw pullers
- The other side of the coin
- A place to stick an awl
- Escaping the shantytown
- A museum of global architecture
- Shantytowns
- Shantytown dwellers
- Factory employment: a shantytown dream
- The homes of the little urbanites
- The rise of the modern real estate market
- The evolution of alleyway houses
- Second landlords
- The shikumen melange
- Under the eaves of Shanghai
- Behind stone portals
- The men who woke up a city
- Peddlers
- Neighbors
- Beyond stone portals
- Commerce in a living room
- The "little food" markets
- Shopping on the block
- The politics of intervention
- The past
- The west
- The communists
- A survey of the origins of Shanghai residents.