Shanghai gone : demolition and defiance in a Chinese megacity / Qin Shao.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shao, Qin, 1953-

Series:

State and society in East Asia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning--China--Shanghai--History.

City planning.

City planning--Political aspects--China--Shanghai--History.

City planning--Social aspects--China--Shanghai--History.

Wrecking--Social aspects--China--Shanghai--History.

Wrecking.

Protest movements--China--Shanghai--History.

Protest movements.

City and town life.

History.

Social change.

Social aspects.

City planning--Social aspects.

City planning--Political aspects.

Shanghai (China)--Biography.

Shanghai (China).

Social change--China--Shanghai--History.

City and town life--China--Shanghai--History.

Shanghai (China)--Social conditions--20th century.

Shanghai (China)--Social conditions--21st century.

China--Shanghai.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xviii, 307 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., [2013]

Summary:

Shanghai has been demolished and rebuilt into a gleaming megacity in recent decades, but that transformation has come at a grave human cost. This compelling book is the first to apply the concept of domicide-the eradication of home against the will of its dwellers-to the destruction of neighborhoods, families, and life patterns and the first to study grassroots resistance to domicide in China. Qin Shao follows, among others, a reticent kindergarten teacher turned diehard petitioner; a descendant of gangsters and squatters who has become an amateur lawyer for evictees; and a Chinese Muslim who has struggled to recover his ancestral home in Xintiandi, an infamous site of gentrification. Shao vividly depicts the relentless pursuit of growth and profit by corrupt power and money, the personal wreckage it has left behind, and the enduring human spirit it has unleashed. Book jacket.

Contents:

The Woman of a Thousand-and-one Petition

Nightmares : Old and New

Waving the Red Flag

Barrack-room Lawyer

Mr. Lincoln's Lane.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781442211315

1442211318

9781442211322

1442211326

OCLC:

802070309