Shanghai Gone : Domicide and Defiance in a Chinese Megacity
by
Qin Shao
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
State & Society in East Asia
ISBN-10
1442211326
ISBN-13
9781442211322
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint
Rowman & Littlefield
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 20th, 2013
Print length
326 Pages
Weight
452 grams
Dimensions
23.10 x 16.20 x 2.60 cms
Product Classification:
Urban communities / city lifeUrban communitiesAnthropology
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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.
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