China Fantasies and China Policies
In: World policy journal: WPJ, Band 24, Heft 1, S. 97-102
ISSN: 1936-0924
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In: World policy journal: WPJ, Band 24, Heft 1, S. 97-102
ISSN: 1936-0924
In: World policy journal: WPJ ; a publication of the World Policy Institute, Band 24, Heft 1, S. 97-102
ISSN: 0740-2775
In: Pacific affairs, Band 80, Heft 2, S. 363-364
ISSN: 0030-851X
In: World policy journal: WPJ ; a publication of the World Policy Institute, Band 24, Heft 1, S. 97-102
ISSN: 0740-2775
In: Urban history, Band 33, Heft 1, S. 65-84
ISSN: 1469-8706
A huge clock, made at Whitechurch by Messrs. J. B. Joyce and Co … has been sent to Shanghai, for the new Chinese Maritime Customs House. The clock, weighing nearly 30 tons, will probably be the Big Ben of the Far East.
In: FP, Heft 152, S. 80-82
ISSN: 0015-7228
The Contemporary and Modern History of Three East Asian Countries, is reviewed.
In: FP, Heft 152, S. 80
ISSN: 0015-7228
In: World policy journal: WPJ, Band 22, Heft 2, S. 59-65
ISSN: 1936-0924
In: World policy journal: WPJ ; a publication of the World Policy Institute, Band 22, Heft 2, S. 59-66
ISSN: 0740-2775
In: Critical Asian studies, Band 36, Heft 1, S. 162-167
ISSN: 1472-6033
In: The China quarterly, Band 176, S. 1095-1097
ISSN: 1468-2648
Jos Gamble sets himself a seemingly impossible task: to "take the city of Shanghai as a whole" as his "fieldwork site," so that he can produce an "ethnography of a city," as opposed to an "ethnography in a city." To apply to any large urban centre interpretive strategies associated with studies of small-scale communities is a tall order. To apply them to Shanghai seems hubristic, given its sheer size and the dramatic changes it underwent between 1992 and 2000, the period during which Gamble made field work stays totalling over 20 months. The most striking thing about this book, then, is simply how quickly the author manages to convince the reader (this reader, anyway) that his project is not foolhardy. The "Introduction" did not dispel my doubts. I was pleased to see from its opening pages that Gamble had made a more serious effort than some of those writing about the city's recent past have done to read widely in and make use of the now vast scholarly literature on old Shanghai. But I came away from the "Structure of the book" section that concludes the "Introduction" convinced that I would end up feeling that his reach had exceeded his grasp. Midway through the next chapter, though, I got an inkling – that soon grew to a conviction – that I had in my hands the best English language work to date on Shanghai in the post-1978 era of reform.
In: Current history: a journal of contemporary world affairs, Band 102, Heft 665, S. 266-269
ISSN: 1944-785X
China's leaders have shifted from relying on Orwellian strategies to policies that Huxley provides us with a better guide for understanding. … [T]o see China today as a Big Brother state is to miss much that has been actually taking place in the People's Republic.
In: World policy journal: WPJ, Band 20, Heft 2, S. 51-60
ISSN: 1936-0924
In: History workshop journal: HWJ, Band 55, Heft 1, S. 226-230
ISSN: 1477-4569
In: Current history: a journal of contemporary world affairs, Band 102, Heft 665, S. 266-269
ISSN: 0011-3530
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