Beyond the Neon Lights Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century

Name: Beyond the Neon Lights Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century
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ISBN: 9780520243781

ISBN-10: 0520243781

ISBN-13: 9780520243781

Edition: 1999

Authors: Hanchao Lu

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How did ordinary people live through the extraordinary changes that have swept across modern China? How did peasants transform themselves into urbanites? How did the citizens of Shanghai cope with the epic upheavals--revolution, war, and again revolution--that shook their lives? Even after decades of scholarship devoted to modern Chinese history, our understanding of the daily lives of the common people of China remains sketchy and incomplete. 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.

Book details

List price: $38.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 9/30/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 473
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English



List of Illustrations


List of Tables


Acknowledgments


Notes on Chinese Currency and Romanization


Introduction


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


Conclusion


The Past


The West


The Communists



A Survey of the Origins of Shanghai Residents



List of Informants


Notes


References Cited


Glossary and Index