| Description |
1 online resource (xxvi, 250 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Chapter Introduction -- chapter 1 Opening the door, crossing the stream: representations and metaphors of reform in contemporary Shanghai -- chapter 2 Global and intra-national cultural flows: renegotiating boundaries and identities in contemporary Shanghai -- chapter 3 The walls within: Shanghai inside out -- chapter 4 Consuming Shanghai: hairy crabs, ghosts, and Christmas trees -- chapter 5 Share dealers, trading places and new options in contemporary Shanghai -- chapter 6 Concluding impressions |
| Summary |
In the decades following the introduction of Communist Party rule in Shanghai in 1949, the city's economy, infrastructure and links with the world all atrophied. However, the past decade has seen far-reaching economic reforms implemented to recreate Shanghai as a cosmopolitan, world financial and trade centre. This book focuses on the lives of local residents and their perceptions of their changing city, and presents an evocative series of ethnographic perspectives of the city's shifting sociological landscape in this period of transition |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Comparative.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic Conditions.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic History.
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Economic history
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Social conditions
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Business & Economics.
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Economic History.
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| SUBJECT |
Shanghai (China) -- Economic conditions
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Shanghai (China) -- Social conditions
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| Subject |
China -- Shanghai
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2002067990 |
| ISBN |
0203989023 |
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9780203989029 |
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9780700715718 |
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0700715711 |
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9786610141753 |
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6610141754 |
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9781135790271 |
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1135790272 |
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9781135790318 |
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1135790310 |
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9781135790325 |
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1135790329 |
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0415861624 |
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9780415861625 |
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