Shanghai homes : palimpsests of private life /

"In the dazzling global metropolis of Shanghai, what has it meant to call this city home? In this account--part microhistory, part memoir--Jie Li salvages intimate recollections by successive generations of inhabitants of two vibrant, culturally mixed Shanghai alleyways from the Republican, Mao...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Li, Jie, 1979- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, [2015]
Colección:Global Chinese culture.
Temas:
Dwellings > China > Shanghai.
Chinese > Dwellings > China > Shanghai.
Habitations > Chine > Shanghai.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Customs & Traditions.
ARCHITECTURE > Buildings > Residential.
Civilization.
Dwellings.
Manners and customs.
Shanghai (China) > Social life and customs.
Shanghai (China) > Civilization.
China > Shanghai.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Foothold: Foundations and Original Residents (1910s-1940s)
  • After the Communist Revolution (1950s-1970s)
  • A New Generation Comes of Age (1970s-1980s)
  • Alleyway Homes as a Microhistorical Stage
  • 2. Haven: Domestic Artifacts as Historical Witnesses
  • Home Searches: The Cultural Revolution in the Alleyway
  • Petty Urbanites: Reinventing Privacy in the Reform Era
  • Thrift, Bricolage, and Nostalgia for the Alleyway
  • 3. Gossip: A Cultural Genealogy of Shanghai Gossip
  • Alleyway Space as a Milieu for Gossip
  • Several Lifetimes to a Life: Women on the Margins
  • A Room of Her Own: The Whispers of Aunt Duckweed
  • 4. Demolition: Demolition Micropolitics
  • Ruins of the Old Neighborhood
  • Nail Houses and Rustless Bolts
  • Coda.

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