Shanghai tai chi : the art of being ruled in Mao's China / Hanchao Lu, Georgia Institute of Technology.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lu, Hanchao, author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in the history of the People's Republic of China

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shanghai (China)--History--20th century.

Shanghai (China).

City and town life--China--Shanghai--20th century.

City and town life.

Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976--Influence.

Mao, Zedong.

Shanghai (China)--Politics and government--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 358 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Part I The Condemned

The Upper Crust

The Stinking Number Nine

Part II The Liberated

The Power of Balzac

Alleyway Women's Detachments

Part III Under the French Parasol Trees

Everyday Flora

In the Eyes of Foreign Onlookers

The Essential Does Not Change.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 21 Apr 2023).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781009180979 (ebook)

Access Restriction:

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