Beyond the neon lights everyday Shanghai in the early twentieth century /
"How did ordinary people live through the extraordinary changes that swept across modern China? How did the "little people" cope with the epic upheavals that shook their lives? How did peasants transform themselves into urbanites? In this carefully researched study, Hanchao Lu weaves...
| Main Author: | Lu, Hanchao. |
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| Other Authors: | EBSCOhost. |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[1999]
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xvii, 456 pages) : illustrations. |
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| Summary: |
"How did ordinary people live through the extraordinary changes that swept across modern China? How did the "little people" cope with the epic upheavals that shook their lives? How did peasants transform themselves into urbanites? In this carefully researched study, Hanchao Lu weaves rich documentary data with ethnographic surveys and interviews to reconstruct the fabric of everyday life in China's largest and most complex city in the first half of this century."--Jacket. "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 and urban-rural relations in China at the beginning of the third millennium."--Jacket. |
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| Item Description: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-426) and index. "How did ordinary people live through the extraordinary changes that swept across modern China? How did the "little people" cope with the epic upheavals that shook their lives? How did peasants transform themselves into urbanites? In this carefully researched study, Hanchao Lu weaves rich documentary data with ethnographic surveys and interviews to reconstruct the fabric of everyday life in China's largest and most complex city in the first half of this century."--Jacket. "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 and urban-rural relations in China at the beginning of the third millennium."--Jacket. 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. English. Colorado Mountain College - E-book Collection / Ebsco. Colorado Mountain College - E-book Collection / Ebsco Academic. |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xvii, 456 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-426) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780520931671 052093167X 0585288984 9780585288987 |