Shanghai Tai Chi. The Art of Being Ruled in Mao’s China New Edition Hanchao Lu

Shanghai Tai Chi. The Art of Being Ruled in Mao’s China – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9781009180986,1009180983

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1009180983
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1009180986
• Author(s): Hanchao Lu

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.

Table contents:

Introduction;

Part I. The Condemned:

1. The upper crust;

2. The stinking number nine;

Part II. The Liberated:

3. The power of Balzac;

4. Alleyway women’s detachments;

Part III. Under the French Parasol Trees:

5. Everyday flora;

6. In the eyes of foreign onlookers;

7. The essential does not change;

Conclusion;

Appendix: List of Informants;

Character List;

References;

Index.

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