tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13974296645733775.post6099338920001614506..comments2023-08-19T12:02:43.740-04:00Comments on An Immigrant's Evolving Perspective: Book Review: Global Shanghai, 1850-2010Xujunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05534267282303815433noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13974296645733775.post-82389908116843265512012-10-18T10:28:48.808-04:002012-10-18T10:28:48.808-04:00In some ways Shanghai is a lot like New York. Bot...In some ways Shanghai is a lot like New York. Both are outliers with a more cosmopolitan history "libertarian" culture than the rest of the country. (See the book Gotham, the early chapters especially, to see what I mean.) Come to think of it, the relationship between Shanghai and Beijing is not unlike the relationship between NYC and DC. One is a center of culture and finance, the other of politics.Luke Leahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11290760894780619646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13974296645733775.post-11958926913248257012009-05-12T02:23:00.000-04:002009-05-12T02:23:00.000-04:00Another book in the Amazon wish list.... :-)Another book in the Amazon wish list.... :-)alfaecohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06911891345810629684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13974296645733775.post-31573947100299427582009-05-10T18:24:00.000-04:002009-05-10T18:24:00.000-04:00I enjoyed reading your review of Wasserstrom's new...I enjoyed reading your review of Wasserstrom's new book on Shanghai. I wrote a review of this book too, which you can read on my chinadiscourse.net site if you're interested. <br /><br />As you mentioned in your review Xujun, Shanghai's change 'is not without irony', for it no longer as safe as it used to be, despite being a more exciting (and perhaps therefore more liveable city). But as i concluded in my review, Shanghai’s potent ‘mix of sensation and spectacle, exploitation and excitement’ (to quote Wasserstrom) not only attracts international capital, but also those of us who find magnetic the global dynamism of such cities of perpetual disintegration and renewal.Mark Anthony Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10182443553516881761noreply@blogger.com