Shanghai Tai Chi

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Books
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30.00
book_author_name: 
Hanchao Lu
book_type: 
Hardback
publisher: 
Cambridge University Press
published_date: 
11/05/2023
isbn: 
9781009180986
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Books > History > Regional & national history > Asia
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Hanchao Lu|Hardback|Cambridge University Press|11/05/2023
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9781009180986
Book Description: 
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.

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