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Shanghai Tai Chi Hanchao Lu (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Shanghai Tai Chi By Hanchao Lu (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Summary

A rich and captivating social and political history of Shanghai, one of the world's most complex cities, under high socialism. Using the metaphor of Tai Chi, Hanchao Lu explores how people experienced and adapted to a new Maoist political culture that epitomizes state-society relations in a communist country.

Shanghai Tai Chi Summary

Shanghai Tai Chi: The Art of Being Ruled in Mao's China by Hanchao Lu (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Shanghai Tai Chi offers a masterful portrait of daily urban life under socialism in a rich social and political history of one of the world's most complex cities. Hanchao Lu explores the lives of people from all areas of society - from capitalists and bourgeois intellectuals to women and youth. Utilizing the metaphor of Tai Chi, he reveals how people in Shanghai experienced and adapted to a new Maoist political culture from 1949. Exploring the multifaceted complexity of everyday life and material culture in Mao's China, Lu addresses the survival of old bourgeois lifestyles under the new proletarian dictatorship, the achievements of intellectuals in an age of anti-intellectualism, the pleasure that urban youth derived from reading taboo literature, the emergence of women's liberation and the politics of greening and horticulture.This captivating, epitomizing, and vivid history transports readers to history as lived on Shanghai's streets and back alleyways.

About Hanchao Lu (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Hanchao Lu is Professor of History at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Director of the China Research Center in Atlanta. He is the author of three award-winning books Beyond the Neon Lights (1999) Street Criers (2005), and The Birth of a Republic (2010).

Table of Contents

List of Figures; List of Maps; List of Tables; Notes on the Text; Introduction; Part I. The Condemned: 1. The upper crust; 2. The stinking number nine; Part II. The Liberated: 3. The power of Balzac; 4. Alleyway women's detachments; Part III. Under the French Parasol Trees: 5. Everyday flora; 6. In the eyes of foreign onlookers; 7. The essential does not change; Conclusion; Appendix: List of Informants; Character List; References; Index.

Additional information

NGR9781009180986
9781009180986
1009180983
Shanghai Tai Chi: The Art of Being Ruled in Mao's China by Hanchao Lu (Georgia Institute of Technology)
New
Hardback
Cambridge University Press
2023-05-11
354
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