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27%OFFJie Li - Shanghai Homes: Palimpsests of Private Life - 9780231167178 - V9780231167178
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Shanghai Homes: Palimpsests of Private Life

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Description for Shanghai Homes: Palimpsests of Private Life Paperback. Series: Global Chinese Culture. Num Pages: 280 pages, 49 figures. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 228 x 11. Weight in Grams: 376.
In the dazzling global metropolis of Shanghai, what has it meant to call this city home? In this account-part microhistory, part memoir-Jie Li salvages intimate recollections by successive generations of inhabitants of two vibrant, culturally mixed Shanghai alleyways from the Republican, Maoist, and post-Mao eras. Exploring three dimensions of private life-territories, artifacts, and gossip-Li re-creates the sounds, smells, look, and feel of home over a tumultuous century. First built by British and Japanese companies in 1915 and 1927, the two homes at the center of this narrative were located in an industrial part of the former "International Settlement." Before their ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
Global Chinese Culture
Condition
New
Weight
401g
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231167178
SKU
V9780231167178
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About Jie Li
Jie Li is assistant professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University.

Reviews for Shanghai Homes: Palimpsests of Private Life
Shanghai Homes is silently stunning. It inscribes intimate details of private lives in alley neighborhoods as family memoir, urban history, a poetics of space. Its palimpsest of images, sketches, sensations, hearsay, memories, and artifacts subtly arouse the tender, tense passions of home. It leaves us with traces of embodied Shanghai, of our humanity.
Robin Visser, University of North Carolina, ... Read more

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