Shanghai Urban Life and Its Heterogeneous Cultural Entanglements [Kõva köide]

"In this book, Xiong Yuezhi and a team of distinguished scholars bring together cutting-edge research on the urban history of Shanghai and the diversity of its distinctive culture. Occupying an interstitial space between Chinese and foreign power, Shanghai from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century experienced almost unimaginably complex developments in its political, social, economic, and cultural history. To untangle this complexity, Xiong and his team have carefully constructed, in thematic and chronological fashion, the interactions between the imperialist powers, foreign settlers, and the Chinese community of Shanghai from the origins of the racially-segregated International Settlement in the 1840s to the internment of foreign settlers in Shanghai during World War II in the 1940s"--

This work surveys the urban history of Shanghai and the many forces shaping the development of the city’s culture, from the late Ming period through the aftermath of WWII. Early chapters are chronological, covering the 17th century, periods of segregation and integration, and Shanghai’s expatriate communities from the 1840s through the 1940s. Thematic chapters address racial identity and discrimination, Western food and Western medicine, language education, cooperation and conflicts, and relations between the city and the countryside. The final chapter looks at the difficult history of Japanese internment camps in Shanghai in the 1940s. Contributors are affiliated with the Shanghai Planning Office of Philosophy and Social Science; the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences; and the Shanghai Municipal Archives. Annotation ©2022 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

In this book, Xiong Yuezhi and a team of distinguished scholars bring together cutting-edge research on the urban history of Shanghai and the diversity of its distinctive culture.