Shanghai Gone: Domicide and Defiance in a Chinese Megacity

摘要

Shanghai Gone is an extraordinary book that documents the contemporary history of housing demolition and relocation in Shanghai. The book is very readable. Qin Shao deliberately chooses to "make the book accessible to anyone who is interested in the vicissitudes of contemporary China" and thus "the book is meant for both the scholarly community and the public"(p. xvi). As a historian, Qin Shao is extremely sensitive to historical details and pays particular attention to the oral history of the everyday experiences of those residents who suffered from housing demolition. She turns these narratives into an account of conflict and resistance in the histories of urban development.