Jos Gamble, Shanghai in Transition: Changing Perspectives and Social Contours of a Chinese Metropolis

Abstract

Here is a new monograph on Shanghai, this publication being distinguished by the originality of its angle of analysis. In order to report the numerous and profound transformations which are drastically changing Shanghai in the era of reforms, Jos Gamble has chosen to give a voice to the lower classes of Shanghai, its laobaoxing, thus aiming, as he states in the preface, to establish "the ethnography of a city".