Book review: Shanghai homes: palimpsests of private life by Jie Li

Chamberlain, Tim (2015) Book review: Shanghai homes: palimpsests of private life by Jie Li [Online resource]

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In the dazzling global metropolis of Shanghai, what has it meant to call the city home? In this account – part microhistory, part memoir – Jie Li salvages intimate recollections by successive generations of inhabitants of two vibrant, culturally mixed Shanghai alleyways from the Republican, Maoist, and post-Mao eras. Tim Chamberlain reviews.

Item Type	Online resource
Copyright holders	© 2015 The Author(s) CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Departments	LSE
Date Deposited	12 Apr 2017 14:32
URI	https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/73698