Shanghai Modern: Reflections on Urban Culture in China in the 1930s

The Maternal in the City: Outdoor Advertising Representations in Shanghai and London

“…Shanghai stands out as China's neoliberal exception. In the 1930s, it was China's gateway to modernity (Bergère, ; Lee, ). More recently, we have witnessed transnational companies' efforts to “re‐engineer the Chinese soul” (Ong, , p. 192) to make employees conform to global corporate norms.…”

The Worlding of St. Petersburg and Shanghai: Comparing Cultures of Communication in Two Cities Before and After Revolutions

“…During the socialist era, which for Shanghai started in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) treated the city with suspicion and considered it the major ground of ideological conflict between capitalism and socialism. Just like Leftist writers during the 1930s who had seen Shanghai as a “bastion of evil, of wanton debauchery and rampant imperialism marked by foreign extraterritoriality” (Lee, , p. 75), the CCP was wary of the corrupting influence of “the big dyeing vat.” An important move in the project of building a socialist Shanghai involved changing the symbolic connotations of landmark buildings and streets in the city. For example, on National Day, 1 October, in 1952 the grounds of Shanghai's Horse Race Club, a symbol of the city's colonial past, were converted into People's Park, People's Avenue, and People's Square.…”

“…They represent major attempts to reclaim urban space and redefine the image of the two cities in line with the new political agendas of nation-building. As McQuire (2008, p. 66), paraphrasing Benjamin (1932/1999, observes, "no other medium can reproduce better than film to blow apart the prison-world of the bourgeois city and convert the indifference of the masses into the 'collective in motion'. "…”

Las metrópolis del siglo XXI Nuevas geografías de la teoría

“…Por ello, la teoría urbana de Asia oriental llama la atención sobre las produccio nes politemporales y polivalentes de la modernidad global, como en la conceptualización del Shanghái "moderno" (de la década de 1920) y el recientemente "moderno" (1990). La idea de un "moderno Shanghái" (Lee, 2001), inevitablemente colonial pero ineluctablemente cosmopolita, es una afirmación teórica de gran alcance. Pues crea un marco de urbanismo globalizado, que está más diferenciado y matizado, que ambas designaciones, la dependentista y la ecología de la ciudad global.…”