Beyond the Neon Lights
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Author_Hanchao Lu
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china
chinese history
class stratification
commerce
commercial culture
common people
east asia
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factory workers
history
modern china
neighborhood stores
nonfiction
peasants
peddlers
real estate market
revolution
rickshaw pullers
rickshaws
segregation
shanghai
shantytown
shikumen
social change
social history
social stratification
sociology
subletting
transportation
urban china
urban poor
urbanites
war
Product details
- ISBN 9780520243781
- Weight: 680g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 30 Sep 2004
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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How did ordinary people live through the extraordinary changes that have swept across modern China? How did peasants transform themselves into urbanites? How did the citizens of Shanghai cope with the epic upheavals--revolution, war, and again revolution--that shook their lives? Even after decades of scholarship devoted to modern Chinese history, our understanding of the daily lives of the common people of China remains sketchy and incomplete. In this carefully researched study, Hanchao Lu weaves rich documentary data with ethnographic surveys and interviews to reconstruct the fabric of everyday life in China's largest and most complex city in the first half of this century.
Hanchao Lu is Professor of History at Georgia Institute of Technology.
