Shanghai: China's Gateway to Modernity by Marie-Claire Bergère

Shanghai  today is a thriving,bustling metropolis. But does its avid pursuit of  the modern trappings of success truly indicate that it will once again  become the shining example of China's commercial and cosmopolitan  culture? While history continues to unfold,eminent China scholar  Marie-Claire Bergère takes readers back to when Shanghai first opened to  the world in 1842 to narrate the city's tumultuous and unique course to  the present.    Shanghai: China's Gateway to Modernity  is the first comprehensive history of Shanghai in any Western language.  Divided into four parts,Bergère details Shanghai's beginnings as a  treaty port in the mid-nineteenth century; its capitalist boom following  the 1911 Revolution; the fifteen years of economic and social decline  initiated by the Japanese invasion in 1937,and attempts at resistance;  and the city's disgraced years under Communism. Weaving together a range  of archival documents and existing histories to create a global picture  of Shanghai's past and present,Bergère shows that Shanghai's success  was not fated,as some contend,by an evolutionary pattern set into  motion long before the arrival of westerners. Rather,her account  identifies the relationship between the Chinese and foreigners in  Shanghai?their interaction,cooperation,and rivalry?as the driving  force behind the creation of an original culture,a specific modernity,founded upon western contributions but adapted to the national Chinese  culture.    Eclipsed for  three decades by socialism,the wheels of the Shanghai spirit began to  turn in the 1990s,when the reform movement took off anew. The city is  again being referred to as a model for China's current modernization  drive. Although it makes no claims to what will happen next,Bergère's Shanghai stands as a compelling and definitive profile of a city whose urban history continues to be redefined,retold,and resold.   Berge?re,Marie-Claire (2010). Shanghai: China's Gateway to Modernity. Trans. Janet Lloyd. Stanford,CA:  Stanford University Press .    Original French: Histoire de Shanghai,Marie-Claire Bergère Paris,Fayard,2002,traduit en 2005 en chinois par Wang Ju et Zhao Nianguo (deuxième édition en 2014).    Chinese translation by Wang Ju and Zhao Nianguo,first in 2005,and second edition in 2014:  ???  (Marie-Claire Bergère)  ? ? « ??? ? ?? ? ??? » Histoire de Shanghai ? ?? ? ? ?? ? ? ? ? ?? ? ?????????? ? 2014     http://cecmc.hypotheses.org/17775     Review by Jeffrey Wasserstrom,?Marie-Claire Bergère,Shanghai: China's Gateway to Modernity?,China Perspectives [Online],2011/1 | 2011,Online since 30 March 2011. URL: http://chinaperspectives.revues.org/5478   Contents on the Stanford University Press website

Disciplines : Chine et territoires adjacents
Mots-clés : Shangai
Type de document : image en mouvement
Type de ressource : lecture
Niveau : higher education