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Author Bracken, Gregory

Title The Shanghai Alleyway House
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (405 pages)
Series Routledge Contemporary China Series
Routledge contemporary China series.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Shanghai History; 3. Typogenesis; 4. Architecture; 5. Social life; 6. Cultural life: Film and literature; 7. What Future for the Shanghai Alleyway House?; Appendix 1: Chinese Philosophy and Religion; Appendix 2: Michel Foucault and Post-Structuralism; Notes; Bibliography; Filmography; Index
Summary 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 terms of the lifestyle it engendered for those who called it home, whilst also looking to the future of the alleyway house.<P
Notes Print version record
Subject Row houses -- China -- Shanghai
Vernacular architecture -- China -- Shanghai
Alleys -- China -- Shanghai
Architecture and society -- China -- Shanghai
Alleys
Architecture and society
Buildings
Row houses
Vernacular architecture
SUBJECT Shanghai (China) -- Buildings, structures, etc
Subject China -- Shanghai
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781135081430
1135081433