Shanghai Gone: Domicide and Defiance in a Chinese Megacity - Couverture souple

Shao, Qin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1442211326 ISBN 13 : 9781442211322

Editeur : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2013

Synopsis

Shanghai has been demolished and rebuilt into a gleaming megacity in recent decades, now ranking with New York and London as a hub of global finance. 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 a home against the will of its dwellers-to the sweeping destruction of neighborhoods, families, and life patterns to make way for the new Shanghai. Here we find the holdouts and protesters, men and women who have stubbornly resisted domicide and demanded justice. 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 dominated by a well-connected Hong Kong real estate tycoon. Highlighting the wrenching changes spawned by China's reform era, Shao vividly portrays the relentless pursuit of growth and profit by the combined forces of corrupt power and money, the personal wreckage it has left behind, and the enduring human spirit it has unleashed.

To see the author's blog post on Asia Society, please click here.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Qin Shao is professor of history at The College of New Jersey. She is the author of Culturing Modernity: The Nantong Model, 1890-1930.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1442211326
• ISBN 13: 9781442211322
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 326
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible