Shanghai Tai Chi: The Art of Being Ruled in Mao's China

Hanchao Lu

doi:10.1017/9781009180979

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The Art of Being Ruled in Mao's China

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Hanchao Lu, Georgia Institute of Technology

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: April 2023
Print publication year:: 2023
Online ISBN:: 9781009180979
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009180979

Subjects:: East Asian History, Area Studies, Asian Studies, History, East Asian Government, Politics and Policy, Politics and International Relations
Series:: Cambridge Studies in the History of the People's Republic of China

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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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The Art of Being Ruled in Mao's China

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Shanghai Tai Chi
pp i-i

Cambridge Studies in the History of the People’s Republic of China - Series page
pp ii-ii

Additional material
pp iii-iii

Additional material
pp iv-iv

Shanghai Tai Chi - Title page
pp v-v

Copyright page
pp vi-vi

Dedication
pp vii-viii

Contents
pp ix-ix

Figures
pp x-xi

Maps
pp xii-xii

Tables
pp xiii-xiii

Acknowledgments
pp xiv-xvi

Notes on the Text
pp xvii-xviii

Introduction
pp 1-18

Part I - The Condemned
pp 19-96

1 - The Upper Crust
pp 21-54

2 - The Stinking Number Nine
pp 55-96

Part II - The Liberated
pp 97-166

3 - The Power of Balzac
pp 99-138

4 - Alleyway Women’s Detachments
pp 139-166

Part III - Under the French Parasol Trees
pp 167-248

5 - Everyday Flora
pp 169-200

6 - In the Eyes of Foreign Onlookers
pp 201-215

7 - The Essential Does Not Change
pp 216-248

Conclusion
pp 249-256

Appendix
pp 257-264

Notes
pp 265-310

References
pp 311-344

Index
pp 345-358

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