Abstract: | In the dazzling global metropolis of Shanghai, what has it meant to call this city home? In this accountpart microhistory, part memoirJie Li salvages intimate recollections by successive generations of inhabitants of two vibrant, culturally mixed Shanghai alleyways from the Republican, Maoist, and post-Mao eras. Exploring three dimensions of private lifeterritories, artifacts, and gossipLi re-creates the sounds, smells, look, and feel of home over a tumultuous century. First built by British and Japanese companies in 1915 and 1927, the two homes at the center of this narrative were locat... |
