Wasserstrom, Jeffrey N., “New Approaches to Old Shanghai” (2001)

Title : “New Approaches to Old Shanghai”

Author(s) : Wasserstrom, Jeffrey N.

Year : 2001

Type : Journal article

Subject : History

Keywords : social

Journal : Journal of Interdisciplinary History

Volume : 32

Number : 2

Start page : 263

End page : 279

Language:Name : English

Support : Print

Abstract : Reviews Lu Hanchao's Beyond the Neon Lights: Everyday Life in Early Twentieth Century Shanghai (1996) and places it in the historiography of Shanghai, China. Lu seeks to avoid focus on the foreign presence in Shanghai or efforts to use Western paradigms to explain cultural development. He describes the lives of ordinary people, revealing the "everyday life repertoire of ideas and strategies for dealing with city life."