Hanchao Lu (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Shanghai Tai Chi

The Art of Being Ruled in Mao's China

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Produktbeschreibung

A rich and captivating social and political history of Shanghai, one of the world's most complex cities, under high socialism. Using the metaphor of Tai Chi, Hanchao Lu explores how people experienced and adapted to a new Maoist political culture that epitomizes state-society relations in a communist country.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in the History of the People's Republic of China
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 162mm x 238mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 660g
• ISBN-13: 9781009180986
• ISBN-10: 1009180983
• Artikelnr.: 65832823

Autorenporträt

Hanchao Lu is Professor of History at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Director of the China Research Center in Atlanta. He is the author of three award-winning books Beyond the Neon Lights (1999) Street Criers (2005), and The Birth of a Republic (2010).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
List of Maps
List of Tables
Notes on the Text
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.