Shanghai has been demolished and rebuilt into a gleaming megacity in recent decades, now ranking with New York and London as a hub of global finance. But that transformation has come at a grave human cost. This compelling book is the first to explore in detail the stories of neighborhoods destroyed, families uprooted, and life patterns lost to make way for the new Shanghai. Here we find the holdouts and protesters, men and women who have stubbornly resisted demolition and demanded justice. Qin Shao follows a reticent kindergarten teacher turned diehard petitioner; a descendant of gangsters and squatters who has held out in his home for a decade and become an amateur lawyer for other evictees; a Chinese Muslim who has struggled to recover his ancestral home in Xintiandi, an infamous site of gentrification dominated by a well-connected Hong Kong real estate tycoon. Highlighting the wrenching changes spawned by China’s reform era, Shao vividly portrays the relentless pursuit of growth and profit by the combined forces of corrupt power and money, the personal wreckage it has left behind, and the enduring human spirit it has unleashed.
發表於2024-12-22
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圖書標籤: 城市 海外中國研究 上海 社會運動 當代中國 舊城改造 中國政治 政治學
這其實是一本不需要讀的書。
評分對幾個故事的描述很翔實
評分上海舊城改造情境下的一本拆遷故事閤集。拋開鮮明的立場不談,作者明明沒有興趣進行理論上的歸納和提煉,但偏偏時不時要跳齣敘事本身、對故事所發生的體製與情景加以評價。可想而知,這些評價和批判自然是既無新意更無洞見。當然,本書中的部分案例倒是有趣,值得再發掘。
評分作者是曆史學者,故事都講得非常精彩,除瞭再次呈現權層的凶相,作者對阮儀三的不齒也在拷問著所謂的生活在語境中的知識分子。作者的傾嚮很明顯。但是在講故事之外,這樣“治當代史”似乎缺瞭一些東西,最後短短的幾頁總結在不同語境不同事件之間縱橫捭闔顯然是不夠的,尤其是類似的議題被研究得實在不算少,但基本都在作者的參考文獻之外。故事要用怎樣的框架來如何支撐纔能超越故事,需要做很多工作瞭。
評分上海舊城改造情境下的一本拆遷故事閤集。拋開鮮明的立場不談,作者明明沒有興趣進行理論上的歸納和提煉,但偏偏時不時要跳齣敘事本身、對故事所發生的體製與情景加以評價。可想而知,這些評價和批判自然是既無新意更無洞見。當然,本書中的部分案例倒是有趣,值得再發掘。
Shanghai Gone 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載