Shanghai Urban Life and Its Heterogeneous Cultural Entanglements

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-51110-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 15, 426 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 861 g

Reihe: Brill's Humanities in China Library

In this book, Xiong Yuezhi and a team of distinguished scholars bring together cutting-edge research on the urban history of Shanghai and the diversity of its distinctive culture. Occupying an interstitial space between Chinese and foreign power, Shanghai from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century experienced almost unimaginably complex developments in its political, social, economic, and cultural history. To untangle this complexity, Xiong and his team have carefully constructed, in thematic and chronological fashion, the interactions between the imperialist powers, foreign settlers, and the Chinese community of Shanghai from the origins of the racially-segregated International Settlement in the 1840s to the internment of foreign settlers in Shanghai during World War II in the 1940s.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Xiong, Yuezhi

Weitere Mitwirkende

Harris, Lane J.

Mei, Chun

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

1 The Formation of a Distinctive Cultural Area

1 Westerners in Shanghai in the Late Ming and Early Qing

2 British Merchants in Shanghai before the Opening of the Port

3 From Segregation to Integration

4 The Integration of Shanghai

5 The Continuous Integration of the Settlements

2 The Expatriate Community in Shanghai

1 A Survey of Expatriates in Shanghai from the 1840s to the 1940s

2 The Position of British and Americans in Shanghai

3 The French in Shanghai

4 Russians in Shanghai

5 Germans in Shanghai

6 Jews in Shanghai

7 Japanese in Shanghai

8 Indians and Other Asians in Shanghai

3 Coexistence and Entanglements

1 To Each Their Own

2 Separate Laws and a Consultative Judiciary

3 Their Own Religions

4 The Currencies of Shanghai

5 The Exotic Atmosphere in the Garden

4 Walls and Fences: Identity, Understanding, and Discrimination

1 Foreign Clubs and Racial Identity

2 Western Discrimination against Chinese

3 True Friends and Helpful Friends

5 Seeking the Truth, Choosing the Good, and Following the Trends: Western Objects, Western Medicine, and Western Food

1 Wide and Fast: The Importation of Western Objects

2 Like Splitting Bamboo: The Spread of Western Medicine

3 All the Rage: The Introduction of Western Food

6 Foreign Language Fever and Pidgin Languages

1 The Development of Foreign Language Teaching in Schools

2 Foreign Language Education at the Foreign Language School

3 English Language Education at St. John’s University

4 The Long-Term Success of Foreign Language Training Courses

5 Pidgin English and Pidgin Chinese

Über Autor(innen)

Xiong Yuezhi, M.A. (1981), East China Normal University, is Research Professor at the Institute of History at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences and Professor of History at Fudan University. He has authored and edited dozens of books, including the award-winning The General History of Shanghai (1999).

Lane J. Harris, Ph.D. (2012), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, is Chair and Associate Professor of History at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. Among his recent publications is The Peking Gazette: A Reader in Nineteenth-Century Chinese History (Brill, 2018).

Mei Chun, Ph.D. (2005), Washington University in Saint Louis, is the author of The Novel and Theatrical Imagination in Early Modern China (Brill, 2011) and a number of articles in Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR), Asia Major, and Renditions.