This book explores the play of international forces and international ideas about Shanghai, looking backward as far as its transformation into a subdivided treaty port in the 1840s, and looking forward to its upcoming hosting of Chinas first Worlds Fair, the 2010 Expo. As such, Global Shanghai is a lively and informative read for students and scholars of Chinese studies and urban studies and anyone interested in the history of Shanghai.
List of figures
xiii
Acknowledgements
xv
Introduction
1
(20)
1850: The birth of a newspaper
21
(13)
1875: Putting the city on the map
34
(14)
1900: A year of fire and sword
48
(14)
1925: A city in the streets
62
(15)
1950: An in-between year
77
(17)
1975: The East was Red
94
(15)
2000: A city in a hurry
109
(15)
Conclusion: Ten theses on twenty-first-century Shanghai
124
(17)
Suggestions for further reading
141
(6)
Notes
147
(20)
Index
167
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom is a Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine
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