Beyond the Neon Lights Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century 1st Edition by Hanchao Lu ISBN 052093167X 9780520931671

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ISBN 10: 052093167X

ISBN 13: 9780520931671 

Author: Hanchao Lu

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.

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—t

Table of contents:

PART 1 IN SEARCH OF AN URBAN IDENTITY
Chapter 1 Going to Shanghai
Chapter 2 The World of Rickshaws

PART 2 A PLACE TO STICK AN AWL
Chapter 3 Escaping the Shantytown
Chapter 4 The Homes of the Little Urbanites

PART 3 UNDER THE EAVES OF SHANGHAI
Chapter 5 Behind Stone Portals
Chapter 6 Beyond Stone Portals

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