Shanghai Gone: Domicide and Defiance in a Chinese Megacity. By QinShao. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2013. xviii, 307 pp. $79.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper); $28.99 (e-book)
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Leighton, Christopher R.
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August 2015
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The Journal of Asian Studies
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Cambridge University Press
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Leighton, Christopher R. “Shanghai Gone: Domicide and Defiance in a Chinese Megacity. By Qin Shao. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2013. Xviii, 307 Pp. $79.00 (Cloth); $29.95 (Paper); $28.99 (E-Book).” The Journal of Asian Studies 74.03 (2015): 742–743.
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Attention to the physical transformation of urban China across the last decades often fixates on feats of construction: ever more ambitious infrastructure, lofty skyscrapers, and opulent entertainments. Shanghai, the country’s premier megacity, usually sets the pace, and will soon add the eighteenth track to its metro, a 2,000 foot tower crowning its skyline, and a Disneyland triple the size of Hong Kong’s (itself a grand project only a decade old). In Shanghai Gone, Qin Shao redirects us to consider instead the equally impressive process of destruction that precedes and propels the city’s continuing reconfiguration.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Humanities. History Section
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
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https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911815000765
