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Shanghai the Chinese Dream and the Production of a New Society Vaide, Johan Contact Space: Shanghai The Chinese Dream and the Production of a New Society Vaide, Johan 2015 Link to publication Citation for published version (APA): Vaide, J. (2015). Contact Space: Shanghai: The Chinese Dream and the Production of a New Society. Lund University. 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LUND UNIVERSITY PO Box 117 221 00 Lund +46 46-222 00 00 Contact Space: Shanghai The Chinese Dream and the Production of a New Society Johan Vaide © Johan Vaide 2015 Typeset: Johan Vaide Cover design and picture editing: Sharif Shawky Cover photo: Waibaidu Bridge, David Leo Veksler (flickr.com) Faculty of Social Sciences and Department of Sociology ISBN 978-91-7623-231-6 (print), 978-91-7623-232-3 (pdf) Printed in Sweden by Media-Tryck, Lund University Lund 2015 To my grandparents who blessed me with the greatest parents Contents Acknowledgements ............................................................................................................................... 7 Part I ...................................................................................................................................................... 11 The study at a glance ........................................................................................................................... 13 1 Introduction .................................................................................................................................... 13 The aim of the study ..................................................................................................................... 15 Studying a phenomenon and developing a concept – notes on contact space ........................... 17 2 Situating the study .......................................................................................................................... 19 Urban sociology, Chinese modernity and the post-colonial global order ..................................... 19 Limitations and studying China’s leading experimental site towards a modern society ............... 26 The organization of the study ....................................................................................................... 28 Part II ..................................................................................................................................................... 31 Theoretical and methodological framework ...................................................................................... 33 3 The sociology of space .................................................................................................................. 35 Introducing Lefebvre’s spatial theory ........................................................................................... 40 Society and space—social space ................................................................................................ 42 Modernity, capitalism and the state .............................................................................................. 43 Spatial practices, representations of space and representational spaces ................................... 46 Conclusion ................................................................................................................................... 50 4 Post-colonial studies and the Chinese semi-colonial experience .................................................. 51 Post-colonial studies and China ................................................................................................... 51 Colonial power and semi-colonialism ........................................................................................... 54 Colonial space and Shanghai architecture ................................................................................... 57 Orientalism, ‘the West’ and Shanghai .......................................................................................... 61 Chinese Occidentalism ................................................................................................................ 63 Shanghai modern and literature ................................................................................................... 65 Lived contact spaces .................................................................................................................... 67 The end of semi-colonialism and the founding of the People’s Republic of China ...................... 70 Conclusion ................................................................................................................................... 71 5 Combining spatial theory and post-colonial studies ....................................................................... 73 6 Methodology and methods ............................................................................................................. 77 Understanding the processes of opening up and immersion in social space .............................. 77 Working methodologically with Lefebvre’s spatial theory ............................................................. 79 Interviews as guided conversations ............................................................................................. 82 Textual resources ......................................................................................................................... 86 Analysing social space and writing style ...................................................................................... 90 Relations in the field ..................................................................................................................... 92 Commercial public spaces, ethical considerations and self-censorship ...................................... 94 Notes on analytical structure ........................................................................................................ 95 5 Part III .................................................................................................................................................... 97 The production of contact space ........................................................................................................ 99 7 Envisioning contact space and new spatial practices on the Chinese mainland ......................... 101 Introduction ................................................................................................................................ 101 Initiating new spatialities ............................................................................................................ 106 The history of the country and producing the new socialist state ............................................... 109 Socialism with Chinese characteristics and the new middle classes ......................................... 111 Promoting uneven access to prosperity ..................................................................................... 116 Seeking to discipline contact space—modernity on its own terms ............................................. 120 Conclusion ................................................................................................................................. 123 8 Producing the post-revolutionary global city ................................................................................ 124 Introduction ................................................................................................................................ 124 The global city with Chinese characteristics .............................................................................. 126 The Pudong New Area – the future of the country today ........................................................... 131 Symbolic identity, large-scale events and spaces of culture ...................................................... 135 Preparing the past for the future – producing the history of the global city ................................ 140 Conclusion ................................................................................................................................. 147 9 Understanding lived contact space .............................................................................................. 149 Characterizing Shanghai ............................................................................................................ 150 Negotiating the history of the city .......................................................................................... 151 Shanghai and places elsewhere on the Chinese mainland .................................................. 155 Nostalgia for pre-1949 Shanghai and living
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