“Shanghai Nostalgia”: the Colonial Past as the Prologue

Shanghai Nostalgia: Historical Memory, Community-Building, and Place-making in a late Socialist City. Abstract . As an outgrowth of my dissertation fieldwork conducted intermittently between 1997 and 2001, the present paper is an ethnographic examination of “Shanghai Nostalgia,” a multi-faceted phenomenon that characterizes the cultural scene of post-reform Shanghai and has affected its ... ................
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