Book review: Shanghai homes: palimpsests of private life by Jie Li

Chamberlain, Tim (2015) Book review: Shanghai homes: palimpsests of private life by Jie Li. LSE Review of Books (17 Mar 2015). Website.

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Abstract

In the dazzling global metropolis of Shanghai, what has it meant to call the 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. Tim Chamberlain reviews.

Item Type:	Online resource (Website)
Official URL:	http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/
Additional Information:	© 2015 The Author(s) CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HM Sociology J Political Science > JQ Political institutions Asia
Date Deposited:	12 Apr 2017 14:32
Last Modified:	15 Sep 2023 20:00
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/73698

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