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The Teahouse under Socialism - The Decline and Renewal of Public Life in Chengdu, 1950–2000 (Paperback)
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The Teahouse under Socialism - The Decline and Renewal of Public Life in Chengdu, 1950–2000 (Paperback)
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To understand a city fully, writes Di Wang, we must observe its
most basic units of social life. In The Teahouse under Socialism,
Wang does just that, arguing that the teahouses of Chengdu, the
capital of Sichuan Province, are some of the most important public
spaces—perfect sites for examining the social and economic
activities of everyday Chinese. Wang looks at the transformation of
these teahouses from private businesses to collective ownership and
how state policy and the proprietors’ response to it changed the
overall economic and social structure of the city. He uses this
transformation to illuminate broader trends in China’s urban
public life from 1950 through the end of the Cultural Revolution
and into the post-Mao reform era. In doing so, The Teahouse under
Socialism charts the fluctuations in fortune of this ancient
cultural institution and analyzes how it survived, and even
thrived, under bleak conditions. Throughout, Wang asks such
questions as: Why and how did state power intervene in the
operation of small businesses? How was "socialist entertainment"
established in a local society? How did the well-known waves of
political contestation and struggle in China change Chengdu’s
teahouses and public life? In the end, Wang argues, the answers to
such questions enhance our understanding of public life and
political culture in the Communist state.
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