Shanghai Reflections
Title | Shanghai Reflections PDF eBook |
Author | Mario Gandelsonas |
Publisher | Princeton Architectural Press |
Pages | 236 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9781568983264 |
Student projects sponsored by Princeton, Hong Kong, and Tongji universities and reviewed by critics.
Shanghai Modern
Title | Shanghai Modern PDF eBook |
Author | Leo Ou-fan Lee |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 465 |
Release | 1999-09-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0674805518 |
In the midst of ChinaÕs wild rush to modernize, a surprising note of reality arises: Shanghai, it seems, was once modern indeed, a pulsing center of commerce and art in the heart of the twentieth century. This book immerses us in the golden age of Shanghai urban culture, a modernity at once intrinsically Chinese and profoundly anomalous, blending new and indigenous ideas with those flooding into this Òtreaty portÓ from the Western world. A preeminent specialist in Chinese studies, Leo Ou-fan Lee gives us a rare wide-angle view of Shanghai culture in the making. He shows us the architecture and urban spaces in which the new commercial culture flourished, then guides us through the publishing and filmmaking industries that nurtured a whole generation of artists and established a bold new style in urban life known as modeng. In the work of six writers of the time, particularly Shi Zhecun, Mu Shiying, and Eileen Chang, Lee discloses the reflection of ShanghaiÕs urban landscapeÑforeign and familiar, oppressive and seductive, traditional and innovative. This work acquires a broader historical and cosmopolitan context with a look at the cultural links between Shanghai and Hong Kong, a virtual genealogy of Chinese modernity from the 1930s to the present day.
Reflections of Seattle's Chinese Americans
Title | Reflections of Seattle's Chinese Americans PDF eBook |
Author | Ron Chew |
Publisher | |
Pages | 162 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
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"Through 71 intimate stories and portraits, elders in Seattle's Chinese American community share, for the first time, their personal memories, both sweet and bitter. In their own voices, they describe their early life in Chinese villages, their passage to America and Seattle's Chinatown. They share their experiences working in laundries, restaurants and canneries. They tell of the climate of racial discrimination, the era of World War II and the community that emerged after the war." "These stories are supplemented by an original historical essay on Seattle's Chinese American community by Doug Chin. The essay provides a window for understanding the struggles and achievements of Chinese Americans during the period from 1860 to the 1960s, the landmark first 100 years."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Life and Death in Shanghai
Title | Life and Death in Shanghai PDF eBook |
Author | Cheng Nien |
Publisher | Grove/Atlantic, Inc. |
Pages | 561 |
Release | 2010-12-14 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0802145167 |
A woman who spent more than six years in solitary confinement during Communist China's Cultural Revolution discusses her time in prison. Reissue. A New York Times Best Book of the Year.
An American in Shanghai
Title | An American in Shanghai PDF eBook |
Author | Russell R. Miller |
Publisher | Mark Shepard Graphic Design |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 2013-12 |
Genre | Americans |
ISBN | 9780991135417 |
For almost three tumultuous decades, insurance and investment fund executive Russell R. Miller, plied his trade in China and Southeast Asia. Buying and selling companies, setting up new ones and moving into public service by creating cultural and educational organizations -- all the while witnessing far reaching societal transformation in China and her neighbors.
China Along the Yellow River
Title | China Along the Yellow River PDF eBook |
Author | Cao Jinqing |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 491 |
Release | 2004-12-10 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1134296622 |
This text had a major impact in its original Chinese version. Reviewed in the Far East Economic Review as 'one of the richest portraits of the Chinese countryside published in the reform era', it charts a long journey through the hinterland region of the Yellow River undertaken by the author between 1994 and 1996. It examines in exhaustive detail the lives and work of peasants, Party and local government officials, providing a wealth of data on the nature of life in post-reform rural China. The author argues that global integration is but the latest 'great leap forward' in a succession of reforms over a hundred years.
The Shanghai Alleyway House
Title | The Shanghai Alleyway House PDF eBook |
Author | Gregory Bracken |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2013-03-05 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 1135081425 |
As a nineteenth-century commercial development, the alleyway house was a hybrid of the traditional Chinese courtyard house and the Western terraced one. Unique to Shanghai, the alleyway house was a space where the blurring of the boundaries of public and private life created a vibrant social community. In recent years however, the city’s rapid redevelopment has meant that the alleyway house is being destroyed, and this book seeks to understand it in terms of the lifestyle it engendered for those who called it home, whilst also looking to the future of the alleyway house. Based on groundwork research, this book examines the Shanghai alleyway house in light of the complex history of the city, especially during the colonial era. It also explores the history of urban form (and governance) in China in order to question how the Eastern and Western traditions combined in Shanghai to produce a unique and dynamic housing typology. Construction techniques and different alleyway house sub-genres are also examined, as is the way of life they engendered, including some of the side-effects of alleyway house life, such as the literature it inspired, both foreign and local, as well as the portrayal of life in the laneways as seen in films set in the city. The book ends by posing the question: what next for the alleyway house? Does it even have a future, and if so, what lies ahead for this rapidly vanishing typology? This interdisciplinary book will be welcomed by students and scholars of Chinese studies, architecture and urban development, as well as history and literature.