Shanghai gone domicide and defiance in a Chinese megacity Qin Shao
Material type: TextLanguage: English Series: State and society in East AsiaPublisher: Lanham, Md. [u.a.] Rowman & Littlefield 2013Description: XVIII, 307 S. Ill., Kt. 23 cmContent type:- Text
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- Band
- 9781442211315
- 9781442211322
- City planning -- China -- Shanghai -- History
- City planning -- Political aspects -- China -- Shanghai -- History
- City planning -- Social aspects -- China -- Shanghai -- History
- Wrecking -- Social aspects -- China -- Shanghai -- History
- Protest movements -- China -- Shanghai -- History
- Social change -- China -- Shanghai -- History
- City and town life -- China -- Shanghai -- History
- Shanghai (China) -- Biography
- Shanghai (China) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Shanghai (China) -- Social conditions -- 21st century
- Schanghai
- 307.1/2160951132 23
- 306.09
- 307.09
- HT169.C62
- LB 72440
- RR 69909
- 74.72
- 71.14
- 89.63
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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single unit book | HAC Library - Holdings of the American Academy in Berlin HAC – 1st floor – Library Room – Open Stacks | R (Reference collection) | R:HT169.C62 S527 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 2023-1336 |
Includes bibliographical references and index
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"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." -- Publisher's website
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