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| #1991083 in Books | Jeffrey N Wasserstrom | 2009-03-02 | 2008-11-25 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.21 x.43 x6.14l,.66 | File type: PDF | 192 pages | Global Shanghai 1850 2010||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Seven snapshot years of Shanghai history with myths, events, and experience|By Hubert Shea|Professor Wasserstrom employs the historical perspective to trace the 150 years development of Shanghai as a global city since 1850. This book is, on the one hand, a collection of history of urban legends and myths as well as fairy tales narrated by people in and out of Shanghai with reg|||'Like Walter Benjamin in his 'Arcades project', Wasserstrom uses elegant, shrewdly chosen vignettes to illuminate the paradox of urban modernity as simultaneous rupture and nostalgia. If he deflates some of Shanghai's current, boosterish hyperbole, it is only
This book explores the play of international forces and international ideas about Shanghai, looking backward as far as its transformation into a subdivided treaty port in the 1840s, and looking forward to its upcoming hosting of China’s first World’s Fair, the 2010 Expo. As such, Global Shanghai is a lively and informative read for students and scholars of Chinese studies and urban studies and anyone interested in the history of Shanghai.
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