Shanghai Tai Chi
The Art of Being Ruled in Mao's China
Part of Cambridge Studies in the History of the People's Republic of China
- Author: Hanchao Lu, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Date Published: May 2023
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781009180986
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Shanghai Tai Chi offers a masterful portrait of daily urban life under socialism in a rich social and political history of one of the world's most complex cities. Hanchao Lu explores the lives of people from all areas of society - from capitalists and bourgeois intellectuals to women and youth. Utilizing the metaphor of Tai Chi, he reveals how people in Shanghai experienced and adapted to a new Maoist political culture from 1949. Exploring the multifaceted complexity of everyday life and material culture in Mao's China, Lu addresses the survival of old bourgeois lifestyles under the new proletarian dictatorship, the achievements of intellectuals in an age of anti-intellectualism, the pleasure that urban youth derived from reading taboo literature, the emergence of women's liberation and the politics of greening and horticulture. This captivating, epitomizing, and vivid history transports readers to history as lived on Shanghai's streets and back alleyways.
Read more- Provides fresh insights on the multifaceted complexity of everyday life and material culture in Mao's China
- For all readers interested in interdisciplinary China studies, PRC studies, world communism, and urban history
- Deeply researched and highly readable contribution to the field
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'This is a very thoroughly researched study of Shanghai and its citizens' everyday lives during the Mao period, with many vivid personal observations and reminiscences of interviewees and other sources, well illustrated with historic photographs.' Michael Sheringham, Asian Affairs
See more reviews'The Mao years undoubtedly left their mark on the city and its people, but in Shanghai Tai Chi Hanchao Lu invites readers to regard these decades as an interruption, an extended but ultimately temporary flickering of the neon lights that once again illuminate its skyline.' Maura Elizabeth Cunningham, The China Quarterly
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- Date Published: May 2023
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781009180986
- length: 354 pages
- dimensions: 236 x 160 x 25 mm
- weight: 0.66kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Maps
List of Tables
Notes on the Text
Introduction
Part I. The Condemned:
1. The upper crust
2. The stinking number nine
Part II. The Liberated:
3. The power of Balzac
4. Alleyway women's detachments
Part III. Under the French Parasol Trees:
5. Everyday flora
6. In the eyes of foreign onlookers
7. The essential does not change
Conclusion
Appendix: List of Informants
Character List
References
Index.
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