[PDF.36na] The Shanghai Alleyway House: A Vanishing Urban Vernacular (Routledge Contemporary China Series)

The Shanghai Alleyway House: A Vanishing Urban Vernacular (Routledge Contemporary China Series)

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Short, expensive, and worth it|By John Lehman|This is a short (151 pages) academic monograph on Shanghai Alleyway houses. Being an academic monograph, it is expensive (about $130) and heavy on the types of "theory" which was popular in literature programs 20 years ago and has since spread to the social sciences. In spite of all that, the book is well-written, interesting, and| |"Bracken is passionate about Shanghai, and one cannot fail to be drawn into the compelling world that he invites the reader into, taking in such things as Shanghai's history (Chapter 2), filmic and literary renderings of Shanghai, which portray life in alleywa

As a nineteenth-century commercial development, the alleyway house was a hybrid of the traditional Chinese courtyard house and the Western terraced one. Unique to Shanghai, the alleyway house was a space where the blurring of the boundaries of public and private life created a vibrant social community. In recent years however, the city’s rapid redevelopment has meant that the alleyway house is being destroyed, and this book seeks to understand it in...

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