Shanghai In Transition
Subtitle: Changing Perspectives And Social Contours Of A Chinese Metropolis
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Hoboken
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780203989029
Subjects: Economic conditions; Economic history; Metropole; Wirtschaftsentwicklung; Sozialer Wandel
Description: This book presents a richly nuanced series of ethnographic perspectives of Shanghai's shifting sociological landscape during a period of far-reaching economic and social transformation.
Table of contents: title: Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Maps; Preface: ethnography of a city; Acknowledgements; Notes on the text; Introduction; 1 Opening the door, crossing the stream: representations andmetaphors of reform in contemporary Shanghai ... ; 2 Global and intra-national cultural flows: renegotiating boundaries and identities in contemporary Shanghai ... ; 3 The walls within: Shanghai inside out ... ; 4 Consuming Shanghai: hairy crabs, ghosts, and Christmas trees ... ; 5 Share dealers, trading places and new options in contemporary Shanghai ... ; 6 Concluding impressions; Notes.; title: BibliographyIndex.