The second coming of global Shanghai

World Policy Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 51-60

  Wasserstrom, Jeffrey N ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0041328695     PISSN: 07402775     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/07402775-2003-3003     Document Type: Review

References (23)

1. Jos Gamble, Shanghai in Transition: Changing Perspectives and Social Contours of a Chinese Metropolis (New York: Routledge Curzon, 2003), pp. x-xi. See also Y. M. Yeung and Sung Yun-wing, eds., Shanghai: Transformation and Modernization under China's Open Policy (Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 1996); and Pamela Yatsko, New Shanghai: The Rocky Rebirth of China's Legendary City (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 2002). Among the works in English that address specific aspects of Shanghai's recent changes, see James Farrer, Opening Up: Youth Sex Culture and Market Reform in Shanghai (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002). There are a number of recent English-language studies that do not focus directly on Shanghai but do a good job of placing its recent changes into a larger regional context. See, for example, Carolyn L. Cartier, Globalizing South China (Oxford: Blackwells, 2001) ; and David R. Meyers, Hong Kong as a Global Metropolis (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000). Since this essay is intended primarily for nonspecialists, I will not cite works that belong to the burgeoning Chinese-language literature on New Shanghai, although my thinking on the subject has been strongly influenced by the writings of such Shanghai-based scholars as Li Tiangang. I have also benefited from conversations about Shanghai with Lynn Pan, the author of several works on the city that are aimed at popular audiences but confirm to rigorous scholarly standards; John Gittings, until recently the head of the Guardian's China bureau; and Elizabeth Perry, a Harvard political scientist currently completing a book on labor activism in Shanghai in the twentieth century.
2. Jos Gamble, Shanghai in Transition: Changing Perspectives and Social Contours of a Chinese Metropolis (New York: Routledge Curzon, 2003), pp. x-xi. See also Y. M. Yeung and Sung Yun-wing, eds., Shanghai: Transformation and Modernization under China's Open Policy (Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 1996); and Pamela Yatsko, New Shanghai: The Rocky Rebirth of China's Legendary City (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 2002). Among the works in English that address specific aspects of Shanghai's recent changes, see James Farrer, Opening Up: Youth Sex Culture and Market Reform in Shanghai (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002). There are a number of recent English-language studies that do not focus directly on Shanghai but do a good job of placing its recent changes into a larger regional context. See, for example, Carolyn L. Cartier, Globalizing South China (Oxford: Blackwells, 2001) ; and David R. Meyers, Hong Kong as a Global Metropolis (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000). Since this essay is intended primarily for nonspecialists, I will not cite works that belong to the burgeoning Chinese-language literature on New Shanghai, although my thinking on the subject has been strongly influenced by the writings of such Shanghai-based scholars as Li Tiangang. I have also benefited from conversations about Shanghai with Lynn Pan, the author of several works on the city that are aimed at popular audiences but confirm to rigorous scholarly standards; John Gittings, until recently the head of the Guardian's China bureau; and Elizabeth Perry, a Harvard political scientist currently completing a book on labor activism in Shanghai in the twentieth century.
3. Jos Gamble, Shanghai in Transition: Changing Perspectives and Social Contours of a Chinese Metropolis (New York: Routledge Curzon, 2003), pp. x-xi. See also Y. M. Yeung and Sung Yun-wing, eds., Shanghai: Transformation and Modernization under China's Open Policy (Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 1996); and Pamela Yatsko, New Shanghai: The Rocky Rebirth of China's Legendary City (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 2002). Among the works in English that address specific aspects of Shanghai's recent changes, see James Farrer, Opening Up: Youth Sex Culture and Market Reform in Shanghai (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002). There are a number of recent English-language studies that do not focus directly on Shanghai but do a good job of placing its recent changes into a larger regional context. See, for example, Carolyn L. Cartier, Globalizing South China (Oxford: Blackwells, 2001) ; and David R. Meyers, Hong Kong as a Global Metropolis (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000). Since this essay is intended primarily for nonspecialists, I will not cite works that belong to the burgeoning Chinese-language literature on New Shanghai, although my thinking on the subject has been strongly influenced by the writings of such Shanghai-based scholars as Li Tiangang. I have also benefited from conversations about Shanghai with Lynn Pan, the author of several works on the city that are aimed at popular audiences but confirm to rigorous scholarly standards; John Gittings, until recently the head of the Guardian's China bureau; and Elizabeth Perry, a Harvard political scientist currently completing a book on labor activism in Shanghai in the twentieth century.
4. Jos Gamble, Shanghai in Transition: Changing Perspectives and Social Contours of a Chinese Metropolis (New York: Routledge Curzon, 2003), pp. x-xi. See also Y. M. Yeung and Sung Yun-wing, eds., Shanghai: Transformation and Modernization under China's Open Policy (Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 1996); and Pamela Yatsko, New Shanghai: The Rocky Rebirth of China's Legendary City (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 2002). Among the works in English that address specific aspects of Shanghai's recent changes, see James Farrer, Opening Up: Youth Sex Culture and Market Reform in Shanghai (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002). There are a number of recent English-language studies that do not focus directly on Shanghai but do a good job of placing its recent changes into a larger regional context. See, for example, Carolyn L. Cartier, Globalizing South China (Oxford: Blackwells, 2001) ; and David R. Meyers, Hong Kong as a Global Metropolis (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000). Since this essay is intended primarily for nonspecialists, I will not cite works that belong to the burgeoning Chinese-language literature on New Shanghai, although my thinking on the subject has been strongly influenced by the writings of such Shanghai-based scholars as Li Tiangang. I have also benefited from conversations about Shanghai with Lynn Pan, the author of several works on the city that are aimed at popular audiences but confirm to rigorous scholarly standards; John Gittings, until recently the head of the Guardian's China bureau; and Elizabeth Perry, a Harvard political scientist currently completing a book on labor activism in Shanghai in the twentieth century.
5. Jos Gamble, Shanghai in Transition: Changing Perspectives and Social Contours of a Chinese Metropolis (New York: Routledge Curzon, 2003), pp. x-xi. See also Y. M. Yeung and Sung Yun-wing, eds., Shanghai: Transformation and Modernization under China's Open Policy (Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 1996); and Pamela Yatsko, New Shanghai: The Rocky Rebirth of China's Legendary City (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 2002). Among the works in English that address specific aspects of Shanghai's recent changes, see James Farrer, Opening Up: Youth Sex Culture and Market Reform in Shanghai (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002). There are a number of recent English-language studies that do not focus directly on Shanghai but do a good job of placing its recent changes into a larger regional context. See, for example, Carolyn L. Cartier, Globalizing South China (Oxford: Blackwells, 2001) ; and David R. Meyers, Hong Kong as a Global Metropolis (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000). Since this essay is intended primarily for nonspecialists, I will not cite works that belong to the burgeoning Chinese-language literature on New Shanghai, although my thinking on the subject has been strongly influenced by the writings of such Shanghai-based scholars as Li Tiangang. I have also benefited from conversations about Shanghai with Lynn Pan, the author of several works on the city that are aimed at popular audiences but confirm to rigorous scholarly standards; John Gittings, until recently the head of the Guardian's China bureau; and Elizabeth Perry, a Harvard political scientist currently completing a book on labor activism in Shanghai in the twentieth century.
6. Jos Gamble, Shanghai in Transition: Changing Perspectives and Social Contours of a Chinese Metropolis (New York: Routledge Curzon, 2003), pp. x-xi. See also Y. M. Yeung and Sung Yun-wing, eds., Shanghai: Transformation and Modernization under China's Open Policy (Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 1996); and Pamela Yatsko, New Shanghai: The Rocky Rebirth of China's Legendary City (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 2002). Among the works in English that address specific aspects of Shanghai's recent changes, see James Farrer, Opening Up: Youth Sex Culture and Market Reform in Shanghai (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002). There are a number of recent English-language studies that do not focus directly on Shanghai but do a good job of placing its recent changes into a larger regional context. See, for example, Carolyn L. Cartier, Globalizing South China (Oxford: Blackwells, 2001) ; and David R. Meyers, Hong Kong as a Global Metropolis (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000). Since this essay is intended primarily for nonspecialists, I will not cite works that belong to the burgeoning Chinese-language literature on New Shanghai, although my thinking on the subject has been strongly influenced by the writings of such Shanghai-based scholars as Li Tiangang. I have also benefited from conversations about Shanghai with Lynn Pan, the author of several works on the city that are aimed at popular audiences but confirm to rigorous scholarly standards; John Gittings, until recently the head of the Guardian's China bureau; and Elizabeth Perry, a Harvard political scientist currently completing a book on labor activism in Shanghai in the twentieth century.
7. Mike Davis, City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (New York: Vintage, 1990).
8. Rhoads Murphey, Shanghai: Key to Modern China (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1953), p. 3.
9. The line "as if by enchantment" comes from The Jubilee of Shanghai (Shanghai: North China Daily News, 1893), p. 21; for the "magic returns to Shanghai" motif, see Heinrich Fruehauf, "Urban Exoticism in Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature," in From May Fourth to June Fourth: Fiction and Film in Twentieth-Century China, ed. Ellen Widmer and David Der-wei Wang (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993), pp. 133-164, esp. p. 152.
10. The line "as if by enchantment" comes from The Jubilee of Shanghai (Shanghai: North China Daily News, 1893), p. 21; for the "magic returns to Shanghai" motif, see Heinrich Fruehauf, "Urban Exoticism in Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature," in From May Fourth to June Fourth: Fiction and Film in Twentieth-Century China, ed. Ellen Widmer and David Der-wei Wang (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993), pp. 133-164, esp. p. 152.
11. For the Venice analogy, see North China Herald, June 16, 1870; here, Venice is described as a "prototype" for Shanghai.
12. On access to public parks and related issues, see Robert Bickers and Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, "Shanghai's 'Chinese Dogs Not Admitted' Sign: History, Legend and Contemporary Symbol," China Quarterly, vol. 142 (June 1995), pp. 444-66.
13. On Chinese participation in and reactions to the Jubilee, see Bryna Goodman, "Improvisations on a Semi-Colonial Theme, or, How to read a Celebration of Transnational Urban Community," Journal of Asian Studies (November 2000).
14. All quotes from Jubilee of Shanghai.
15. A great deal has been written about the current competition as well as the connections between Hong Kong and Shanghai. A variety of positions on this are staked out effectively in Yeung and Sung, Shanghai, and a strong case is made for Hong Kong's continued financial and commercial centrality in Meyers, Hong Kong as a Global Metropolis, which includes useful comparative comments on Shanghai, as well as in Yatsko, New Shanghai. For Shanghai's displacement of Canton in the late 1800s and the current relationship between Shanghai and Hong Kong, see Cartier, Globalizing South China.
16. John Gittings, "Fortress Shanghai Awaits Bush," The Guardian (London), October 16, 2001.
17. Gamble, Shanghai in Transition, pp. 76-77 and passim. For the most important general study of rural-urban migration, see Dorothy J. Solinger, Contesting Citizenship in Urban China: Peasant Migrants, the State, and the Logic of the Market (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999).
18. Gamble, Shanghai in Transition, pp. 76-77 and passim. For the most important general study of rural-urban migration, see Dorothy J. Solinger, Contesting Citizenship in Urban China: Peasant Migrants, the State, and the Logic of the Market (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999).
19. Christopher Isherwood and W. H. Auden, Journey to a War (London: Faber and Faber, 1939), p. 237.
20. Gamble, Shanghai in Transition, pp. 139, 154.
21. Isherwood and Auden, Journey to a War, p. 252.
22. Gamble, Shanghai in Transition, p. 18.
23. This formerly hard-to-locate text, originally published by Tridon Press in Shanghai, is now available online at www.talesofoldchina.com.