Shanghai Gone : Domicide and Defiance in a Chinese Megacity

Name: Shanghai Gone
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
SKU: 9781442211322
Price: 7550 KES
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ISBN: 9781442211322

by Qin Shao

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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 life Urban communities Anthropology

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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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