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Author(s): Jos Gamble
ISBN(s): 9780700715718, 0700715711
Edition: 1
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Year: 2002
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0700715711 
ISBN 13: 9780700715718
Author: Jos Gamble

In the decades following the introduction of Communist Party rule in Shanghai in 1949, the city’s economy, infrastructure and links with the world all atrophied. However, the past decade has seen far-reaching economic reforms implemented to recreate Shanghai as a cosmopolitan, world financial and trade centre. This book focuses on the lives of local residents and their perceptions of their changing city, and presents an evocative series of ethnographic perspectives of the city’s shifting sociological landscape in this period of transition.

Shanghai in Transition Changing Perspectives and Social Contours of a Chinese Metropolis 1st Table of contents:

1 Opening the door, crossing the stream: representations and metaphors of reform in contemporary Shanghai
Gaige kaifang
Understanding Gaige Kaifang
Metaphor
Metaphors of reform
Opening the sluice: representations of the place of gaige kaifang in modern chinese history
Why Gaige Kaifang?
Opening the floodgates: changes brought about by gaige kaifang
Before the flood
Information
Flow of capital
Flow of people
Flow within Shanghai
Backwaters and stagnant pools
Rising tides—living standards and consumerism
Flood water, dangerous currents, murky depths, and whirlpools
Washed away in the flood
Dangerous currents
Murky depths
Dirty water, flotsam and jetsam
Where water flows, a channel is formed (shuidao qucheng)
New roads in the mind—changes in attitude, behaviour and thought
When the water subsides the rocks emerge (shuiluo shichu)
‘Everything before us, nothing before us’
2 Global and intra-national cultural flows: renegotiating boundaries and identities in contemporary Shanghai
Introduction
Shanghai: porousness and enclosure
Shanghai: from world city to Chinese city
Shanghai’s changing place in China—from traditional flow to revolutionary enclosure
Orientalising shanghai: representing others, defining selves
Notions of self/other
‘Chineseness’
‘Shanghainese’ identities
Opening shanghai’s boundaries: identities in the reform era
Shanghainese/Beijingerss
‘Outside people’
Being shanghainese
Some tastes/flavours of shanghai
The vitality of contemporary ‘Shanghainese’ identities
Further consequences of intra-national porousness
Shanghai’s re-internationalisation
Re-internationalising Shanghai
Technological flows
Cultural flows/mediascapes
Spatial mobility/sociological differentiation
Concluding remarks
3 The walls within: Shanghai inside out
The changing city environment
Uptown, downtown shanghai
The basis of the distinction
Changing views of the shang/xiazhijiao
Two points: work place/home
Boundaries and enclosures
The work place (danwei)
Tearing down the walls
Beyond the danwei
The inner circle: home spaces
Privatising the home
Furnishing desire—the urge to decorate
Changing home styles
Alternative places
Connecting lines
Commuting lines
Electronic ‘lines’
Home boundaries in the electronic age
Concluding remarks
4 Consuming Shanghai: hairy crabs, ghosts, and Christmas trees
Historical background to the new consumerism
From revolutionary slogans to advertising jingles: the re-emergence of consumerism
Consumption as the measure of progress
The God of wealth returns to Shanghai
Shanghainese transnational Chinese identity
The state as conspicuous consumer/consuming the state
Wealth inequalities
Emergent contours of lifestyle consumption
Lifestyle consumers
Famous brand name clothing—the ‘uncooked’ consumer
Shanghai Christmas—a new ritual of consumerism
Concluding remarks
5 Share dealers, trading places and new options in contemporary Shanghai
The shanghai share market: from coagulation to speculation2
‘Socialist shares can only go up!’5
Chinese characteristics
Official reasons for reintroducing a share market
‘Share people’: shanghai punters
Dahu, the successful dealers
More Chinese characteristics
Criticisms and problems of the market
Widening the margins
The Party-state—the view from the dealing floor
Change from the top?
Blurring the margins
A new need to know
Back to the future?
New options and dilemmas
6 Concluding impressions
Notes
Preface: ethnography of a city
Introduction
1 Opening the door, crossing the stream: representations and metaphors of reform in contemporary Shanghai
2 Global and intra-national cultural flows: renegotiating boundaries and identities in contemporary Shanghai
3 The walls within: Shanghai inside out
4 Consuming Shanghai: hairy crabs, ghosts, and Christmas trees
5 Share dealers, trading places, and new options in contemporary Shanghai
6 Concluding impressions

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