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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    April 2023
    May 2023
    ISBN:
    9781009180979
    9781009180986
    9781009180962
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009180979
    Dimensions:
    (229 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.66kg, 354 Pages
    Dimensions:
    (229 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.546kg, 378 Pages
    • Subjects:
    East Asian History, Area Studies, Asian Studies, History, East Asian Government, Politics and Policy, Politics and International Relations
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in the History of the People's Republic of China
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    Subjects:
    East Asian History, Area Studies, Asian Studies, History, East Asian Government, Politics and Policy, Politics and International Relations
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in the History of the People's Republic of China
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    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.

    Reviews

    ‘This is a very thoroughly researched study of Shanghai and its citizens’ everyday lives during the Mao period, with many vivid personal observations and reminiscences of interviewees and other sources, well illustrated with historic photographs.’

    Michael Sheringham Source: Asian Affairs

    ‘The Mao years undoubtedly left their mark on the city and its people, but in Shanghai Tai Chi Hanchao Lu invites readers to regard these decades as an interruption, an extended but ultimately temporary flickering of the neon lights that once again illuminate its skyline.’

    Maura Elizabeth Cunningham Source: The China Quarterly

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