Shanghai Mundane : Survival and Revival of Bourgeois Sentiments under Chinese Socialism.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ping, Lei, author.

Series:

Challenges Facing Chinese Political Development.

Challenges Facing Chinese Political Development

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle class--China--Shanghai.

Middle class.

Socialism--China--Shanghai.

Socialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2025.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

Offers a new critical intervention into the studies of the paradox of Chinese socialism. Centering on the "unremodable" Shanghai bourgeoisie and middle class, the book brilliantly discovers Chinese society's persistent aspiration to bourgeois lifestyle.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Illustrations

Figures

Tables

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Introduction

Part I: Socialist Transformation of Shanghai National Bourgeoisie

Chapter 1: Historical Rationale and Limitations of Mao's "Utilizing, Restricting, Transforming"

Shanghai Capitalism on the Eve of the 1949 Socialist Revolution

Mao's Political Thought on Socialist Transformation of National Bourgeoisie

Two Wars and "Shanghai April Crisis"

"Three-Anti" and "Five-Anti" Campaigns

State Capitalism Through Joint State-Private Management

Shanghai National Bourgeoisie's Reactions to Socialist Transformation

Liu Hongsheng: Early Supporter of Socialist Remolding

Rong Yiren: Red Capitalist Turned Socialist Politician

Historical Limitations of Socialist Transformation of Capitalist Industry and Commerce

Chapter 2: "Remolding" and "Remolded": Socialist Transformation of Shanghai Capitalists in Literature and Cinema

Physiognomy of Shanghai Capitalists in Zhou Erfu's Novel Morning in Shanghai

Tuesday Dining Club-Meeting-Place of the Shanghai Leading National Capitalists

"Meeting in the Middle"-Case of Xu Yide

"Let's Speculate!"-Case of Zhu Yannian

"Follow the CCP!"-Case of Ma Muhan

Embourgeoisement of Socialist Remolders

Chief Zhang's "Shanghai Experience"

Cadre Fang Yu and Gold Swiss Watch

Worker Tao Amao's "Revolutionary" Conviction

Workers' Material Pursuit-Bonus, Furniture, and Fashion

Paradox of Socialist Transformation in Tang Xiaodan's Film City without Night

Bourgeois Comfort and Precarity in Preliberation Shanghai

Labor-Capital Conflict in the Factory

New Society and New Working Class

Bourgeois Father and Socialist Daughter

The Question of Remoldability.

Part II: Life and Death of Shanghai Longtang Everyday Life

Chapter 3: Survival of Shanghai Bourgeois Heritage and Urbanite Culture in the Mao Era

Shanghai Identity: Petty Urbanites and Haipai Culture

Longtang Everyday Life: "Practicing Daoist Rites in a Snail Shell"

Savoring Mundanity-Timeless Shanghai Food Culture

Revival of "Bourgeois Fashion" vis-à-vis Chinese Socialism

"Becoming Shanghainese": Socialist Ethos Transformed

Chapter 4: Demolition of a Distinctive Shanghai Habitus in the Post-Mao Era: Vanishing of Longtang, Petty Urbanites, and Shanghai Dialect

A Socialist-Neoliberal Collusion: From Socialization to Privatization of Housing Regime

Longtang Ownership in Pre-1949 Shanghai

Socialization and Deterioration of Shanghai Housing Regime

Privatization and Gentrification of Shanghai Housing Regime

Legitimation Crisis: Domicide and Controversies of Chinese Property Rights Law

Legitimizing Domicide

Belated and Controversial Chinese Property Rights Law

Photographing Vanishing of Shanghai Longtang Everyday Life117

Lu Yuanmin: Shanghai Longtang before Demolition

Hu Yang: Shanghai Living and Domicide

Xi Zi: Longtang and Ruins

Graham Fink: Transience and Rebirth

Shanghai Dialect and Huaji Comedy: From Cosmopolitanism to Provincialism

Shanghaihua Humor as Quotidian Living

Becoming Provincial: Shanghai Dialect De-popularized

Reviving Shanghai Dialect: Vernacular and Humorous Initiatives

Part III: Cultural-Capitalist Spaces of New Shanghai Middle Class

Chapter 5: The Interior: Advertising Bourgeois Sentiments Through Middle-Class Homeownership Dream

Advertising Socio-spatial Re-stratification

Downtown Puxi: Global Aspiration and International Branding

New Pudong: Modern Haipai and "Modest Extravaganza"

Songjiang: Suburbia Brownstone and Origin of Old Shanghai.

Reinventing Bourgeois Comfort Through Interior Design

IKEA and Scandinavian Style

Neri &amp

Hu and "Living with Design"

Redefining Tradition and Creativity: Chinese-Born Furniture Brands

Design and Architecture Magazines

"Shanghai Hukou" and Cosmopolitan Citizenship

"Property Slaves" and Shattered Homeownership Dream

"Dwelling Narrowness": Dystopia of New Migrant Fangnu

"Ode to Joy": Anxious "New Shanghainese"

Shattered Homeownership Dream

Chapter 6: The Exterior: Exhibiting Class Identity Through Social Media Wanghong Daka

Upward Acculturation and Xiaozi Taste

Desiring Cultural Nobility: From Downton Abbey to Finishing Schools

Shanghai, Coffee Capital of the Twenty-First Century

Manufacturing Haipai Nostalgia

Flâneurs of Longtang-Turned Postmodern Arcades

Xintiandi and Jinchaobalong: Wanghong "Social Renaissance"

Wulixiang: Shikumen Open Air Museum

Tianzifang: "Authentic" Longtang Lifestyle Tourism

Zhang Garden: Cosmopolitanism and Socialism in Museumized Longtang

Connoisseurs of Western Garden Villas and Parisian-Style Streets

Prada Rong Zhai: Global Luxury Meets Old Shanghai Glamour

Sinan Mansions: "Humanities Drawing Room"

Wukang Mansion: László Hudec Re-fetishized

Epilogue: From "Cultural Self-Confidence" to Economic Stimulus: Shanghai Mundane under Xi's Sino-centric Socialism

Propagating "Cultural Self-Confidence"

Heralding an "Urbanite Revolution": Shanghai in 2022

"When Marx Meets Confucius": Strengthening Sino-centric Socialism

Belated Economic Stimulus and Re-entrapped Shanghai Middle Class

Power of the Shanghai Mundane

Appendix: Chinese Journals, Magazines, and Newspapers

Bibliography

Index.

ISBN:

979-88-8189-493-1

979-82-16-20149-6

1-9787-6316-6

OCLC:

1535403169