Shanghai Tai Chi - The Art of Being Ruled in Mao's China (Hardcover)

Shanghai Tai Chi offers a masterful portrait of daily urban life under socialism in a rich social and political history of one of the world's most complex cities. Hanchao Lu explores the lives of people from all areas of society - from capitalists and bourgeois intellectuals to women and youth. Utilizing the metaphor of Tai Chi, he reveals how people in Shanghai experienced and adapted to a new Maoist political culture from 1949. Exploring the multifaceted complexity of everyday life and material culture in Mao's China, Lu addresses the survival of old bourgeois lifestyles under the new proletarian dictatorship, the achievements of intellectuals in an age of anti-intellectualism, the pleasure that urban youth derived from reading taboo literature, the emergence of women's liberation and the politics of greening and horticulture. This captivating, epitomizing, and vivid history transports readers to history as lived on Shanghai's streets and back alleyways.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Studies in the History of the People's Republic of China
Release date:	May 2023
Authors:	Hanchao Lu
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	354
ISBN-13:	978-1-00-918098-6
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General Books > History > General Promotions
LSN:	1-00-918098-3
Barcode:	9781009180986

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