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Shanghai Tai Chi
Shanghai Tai Chi offers a masterful portrait of daily life under socialism
in a rich social and political history of one of the world’s most complex
cities. Hanchao Lu explores the lives of people from all areas of soci-
ety – from capitalists and bourgeois intellectuals to women and youth.
Wielding the metaphor of Tai Chi, he reveals how people in Shang-
hai experienced, adapted to, and manipulated the new Maoist politi-
cal culture launched in 1949. Exploring the multifaceted complexity
of everyday life and material culture in Mao’s China, Lu addresses the
survival of old bourgeois lifestyles under the new proletarian dictator-
ship, the achievements of intellectuals in an age of anti-intellectualism,
the pleasure that urban youth derived from reading taboo literature,
the emergence of women’s liberation and the politics of greening and
horticulture. Lu argues that an undercurrent of non-confrontational
but nevertheless powerful and effective defiance characterized Mao’s
China, paved the way for the post-Mao reform, and illustrated how the
public might, through accommodation and manipulation, resist even
the most repressive of regimes.
Series Editors
Jacob Eyferth, Daniel Leese, Michael Schoenhals
YA
NGZ
QIAOZHEN
IR
IV
ER CHONGMING
JIANGSU
PROVINCE BAOSHAN
JIADING
BAOSHAN
JIADING
URBAN CHUANSHA
EAST
CHUANSHA
DISTRICT CHINA
QINGPU
QINGPU
SEA
XINZHUANG
SONGJIANG HUINAN
NANHUI
SHANGHAI
SONGJIANG
NANQIAO
FENGXIAN
ZHUJIN
JINSHAN
ZHEJIANG
PROVINCE HANGZHOU BAY
d
a
ing
Shanghai
Ro
Sip
Railway
xin Road
Station
oshan
ghe
Ba
Gon
Road
W
gzhi
u
u
Tian
mu Road Chan
Road
5
nin
ho
C
och
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Ro
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Road 19 22
4
21
g Road
Beijin 6
Road
Wa
nh 7 1
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Road
an njin
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d 20 Na 23 s
People’
oa 9
ng
Park 14 Park
gR 13 Road
S h i m en
Sichuan
gnin 15
Han d Renmin
oad
8 Roa
Xizha
Yan’an
Road
’an Road
Yan 3
an R
Road
Road
11
d
Road
16
ngs h
West
Shanghai oad 2
Road
d
Road
i Roa
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Zoo Fuxing
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ng R
aih
Roa
Ham
Hu
East Zho
Road
Hongqiao Zhong hua
10
Huangpi
Ho
Airport ng
Ruijing
Lujiabang Road
Shanxi
Road
Chongqi
qia
han
o
Road
jiabang
han
ad
Zhao
Huas
Ro
ngs
1 Municipal People’s Government an
d
Roa
d gs h r
a
Zho
Ro
st
3 Jinjiang Hotel
We
4 Peace Hotel ng
d
5 Shanghai Mansions do
6 Guoji (Park) Hotel Pu
Indoor
Roa
7 Overseas Chinese Store
8 Jing’an Park Stadium Huangpu
9 Shanghai Used-book Store
xi
10 Hengshan Guesthouse Longhua
h
ut
hao
So
C
13 Children’s Palace o Road
14 Shanghai Exhibition Hall Chaba
15 Shanghai Museum Longhua
16 Former Residence of Sun
Yat-sen and Fuxing Park Temple
17 Tomb of Lu Xun
18 Shanghai International Seamen’s Club
19 Friendship Store a d
20 Jing’an Temple Ro
21 Shanghai No. 1 Department Store Shanghai Botanical
min
22 Huangpu Park Hu Garden
23 Shanghai Television Tower
Hanchao Lu
Georgia Institute of Technology
www.cambridge.org
Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9781009180986
DOI: 10.1017/9781009180979
© Hanchao Lu 2023
This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions
of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take
place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press & Assessment.
First published 2023
Printed in the United Kingdom by TJ Books Limited, Padstow Cornwall
A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Lu, Hanchao, author.
Title: Shanghai tai chi : the art of being ruled in Mao’s China /
Hanchao Lu, Georgia Institute of Technology.
Other titles: Art of being ruled in Mao’s China
Description: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge
University Press, 2023. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2022029325 | ISBN 9781009180986 (hardback) |
ISBN 9781009180979 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Shanghai (China) – History – 20th century. | City and town
life – China – Shanghai – 20th century. | Mao, Zedong,
1893–1976 – Influence. | Shanghai (China) – Politics and government – 20th century.
Classification: LCC DS796.S25 L8127 2023 | DDC 951.132–dc23/eng/20220706
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022029325
ISBN 978-1-009-18098-6 Hardback
Cambridge University Press & Assessment has no responsibility for the persistence
or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this
publication and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will
remain, accurate or appropriate.
Shanghai Tai Chi offers a masterful portrait of daily life under socialism
in a rich social and political history of one of the world’s most complex
cities. Hanchao Lu explores the lives of people from all areas of soci-
ety – from capitalists and bourgeois intellectuals to women and youth.
Wielding the metaphor of Tai Chi, he reveals how people in Shang-
hai experienced, adapted to, and manipulated the new Maoist politi-
cal culture launched in 1949. Exploring the multifaceted complexity
of everyday life and material culture in Mao’s China, Lu addresses the
survival of old bourgeois lifestyles under the new proletarian dictator-
ship, the achievements of intellectuals in an age of anti-intellectualism,
the pleasure that urban youth derived from reading taboo literature,
the emergence of women’s liberation and the politics of greening and
horticulture. Lu argues that an undercurrent of non-confrontational
but nevertheless powerful and effective defiance characterized Mao’s
China, paved the way for the post-Mao reform, and illustrated how the
public might, through accommodation and manipulation, resist even
the most repressive of regimes.
Series Editors
Jacob Eyferth, Daniel Leese, Michael Schoenhals
YA
NGZ
QIAOZHEN
IR
IV
ER CHONGMING
JIANGSU
PROVINCE BAOSHAN
JIADING
BAOSHAN
JIADING
URBAN CHUANSHA
EAST
CHUANSHA
DISTRICT CHINA
QINGPU
QINGPU
SEA
XINZHUANG
SONGJIANG HUINAN
NANHUI
SHANGHAI
SONGJIANG
NANQIAO
FENGXIAN
ZHUJIN
JINSHAN
ZHEJIANG
PROVINCE HANGZHOU BAY
d
a
ing
Shanghai
Ro
Sip
Railway
xin Road
Station
oshan
ghe
Ba
Gon
Road
W
gzhi
u
u
Tian
mu Road Chan
Road
5
nin
ho
C
och
ow
Ro
Cree
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a d
Road 19 22
4
21
g Road
Beijin 6
Road
Wa
nh 7 1
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Road
an njin
Zhongshan d g du roa
d 20 Na 23 s
People’
oa 9
ng
Park 14 Park
gR 13 Road
S h i m en
Sichuan
gnin 15
Han d Renmin
oad
8 Roa
Xizha
Yan’an
Road
’an Road
Yan 3
an R
Road
Road
11
d
Road
16
ngs h
West
Shanghai oad 2
Road
d
Road
i Roa
Henan
Zoo Fuxing
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ng R
aih
Roa
Ham
Hu
East Zho
Road
Hongqiao Zhong hua
10
Huangpi
Ho
Airport ng
Ruijing
Lujiabang Road
Shanxi
Road
Chongqi
qia
han
o
Road
jiabang
han
ad
Zhao
Huas
Ro
ngs
1 Municipal People’s Government an
d
Roa
d gs h r
a
Zho
Ro
st
3 Jinjiang Hotel
We
4 Peace Hotel ng
d
5 Shanghai Mansions do
6 Guoji (Park) Hotel Pu
Indoor
Roa
7 Overseas Chinese Store
8 Jing’an Park Stadium Huangpu
9 Shanghai Used-book Store
xi
10 Hengshan Guesthouse Longhua
h
ut
hao
So
C
13 Children’s Palace o Road
14 Shanghai Exhibition Hall Chaba
15 Shanghai Museum Longhua
16 Former Residence of Sun
Yat-sen and Fuxing Park Temple
17 Tomb of Lu Xun
18 Shanghai International Seamen’s Club
19 Friendship Store a d
20 Jing’an Temple Ro
21 Shanghai No. 1 Department Store Shanghai Botanical
min
22 Huangpu Park Hu Garden
23 Shanghai Television Tower
Hanchao Lu
Georgia Institute of Technology
www.cambridge.org
Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9781009180986
DOI: 10.1017/9781009180979
© Hanchao Lu 2023
This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions
of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take
place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press & Assessment.
First published 2023
Printed in the United Kingdom by TJ Books Limited, Padstow Cornwall
A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Lu, Hanchao, author.
Title: Shanghai tai chi : the art of being ruled in Mao’s China /
Hanchao Lu, Georgia Institute of Technology.
Other titles: Art of being ruled in Mao’s China
Description: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge
University Press, 2023. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2022029325 | ISBN 9781009180986 (hardback) |
ISBN 9781009180979 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Shanghai (China) – History – 20th century. | City and town
life – China – Shanghai – 20th century. | Mao, Zedong,
1893–1976 – Influence. | Shanghai (China) – Politics and government – 20th century.
Classification: LCC DS796.S25 L8127 2023 | DDC 951.132–dc23/eng/20220706
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022029325
ISBN 978-1-009-18098-6 Hardback
Cambridge University Press & Assessment has no responsibility for the persistence
or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this
publication and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will
remain, accurate or appropriate.
Shanghai Tai Chi offers a masterful portrait of daily life under socialism
in a rich social and political history of one of the world’s most complex
cities. Hanchao Lu explores the lives of people from all areas of soci-
ety – from capitalists and bourgeois intellectuals to women and youth.
Wielding the metaphor of Tai Chi, he reveals how people in Shang-
hai experienced, adapted to, and manipulated the new Maoist politi-
cal culture launched in 1949. Exploring the multifaceted complexity
of everyday life and material culture in Mao’s China, Lu addresses the
survival of old bourgeois lifestyles under the new proletarian dictator-
ship, the achievements of intellectuals in an age of anti-intellectualism,
the pleasure that urban youth derived from reading taboo literature,
the emergence of women’s liberation and the politics of greening and
horticulture. Lu argues that an undercurrent of non-confrontational
but nevertheless powerful and effective defiance characterized Mao’s
China, paved the way for the post-Mao reform, and illustrated how the
public might, through accommodation and manipulation, resist even
the most repressive of regimes.
Series Editors
Jacob Eyferth, Daniel Leese, Michael Schoenhals
YA
NGZ
QIAOZHEN
IR
IV
ER CHONGMING
JIANGSU
PROVINCE BAOSHAN
JIADING
BAOSHAN
JIADING
URBAN CHUANSHA
EAST
CHUANSHA
DISTRICT CHINA
QINGPU
QINGPU
SEA
XINZHUANG
SONGJIANG HUINAN
NANHUI
SHANGHAI
SONGJIANG
NANQIAO
FENGXIAN
ZHUJIN
JINSHAN
ZHEJIANG
PROVINCE HANGZHOU BAY
d
a
ing
Shanghai
Ro
Sip
Railway
xin Road
Station
oshan
ghe
Ba
Gon
Road
W
gzhi
u
u
Tian
mu Road Chan
Road
5
nin
ho
C
och
ow
Ro
Cree
k 18
a d
Road 19 22
4
21
g Road
Beijin 6
Road
Wa
nh 7 1
g
Road
an njin
Zhongshan d g du roa
d 20 Na 23 s
People’
oa 9
ng
Park 14 Park
gR 13 Road
S h i m en
Sichuan
gnin 15
Han d Renmin
oad
8 Roa
Xizha
Yan’an
Road
’an Road
Yan 3
an R
Road
Road
11
d
Road
16
ngs h
West
Shanghai oad 2
Road
d
Road
i Roa
Henan
Zoo Fuxing
ai
ng R
aih
Roa
Ham
Hu
East Zho
Road
Hongqiao Zhong hua
10
Huangpi
Ho
Airport ng
Ruijing
Lujiabang Road
Shanxi
Road
Chongqi
qia
han
o
Road
jiabang
han
ad
Zhao
Huas
Ro
ngs
1 Municipal People’s Government an
d
Roa
d gs h r
a
Zho
Ro
st
3 Jinjiang Hotel
We
4 Peace Hotel ng
d
5 Shanghai Mansions do
6 Guoji (Park) Hotel Pu
Indoor
Roa
7 Overseas Chinese Store
8 Jing’an Park Stadium Huangpu
9 Shanghai Used-book Store
xi
10 Hengshan Guesthouse Longhua
h
ut
hao
So
C
13 Children’s Palace o Road
14 Shanghai Exhibition Hall Chaba
15 Shanghai Museum Longhua
16 Former Residence of Sun
Yat-sen and Fuxing Park Temple
17 Tomb of Lu Xun
18 Shanghai International Seamen’s Club
19 Friendship Store a d
20 Jing’an Temple Ro
21 Shanghai No. 1 Department Store Shanghai Botanical
min
22 Huangpu Park Hu Garden
23 Shanghai Television Tower
Hanchao Lu
Georgia Institute of Technology
www.cambridge.org
Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9781009180986
DOI: 10.1017/9781009180979
© Hanchao Lu 2023
This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions
of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take
place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press & Assessment.
First published 2023
Printed in the United Kingdom by TJ Books Limited, Padstow Cornwall
A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Lu, Hanchao, author.
Title: Shanghai tai chi : the art of being ruled in Mao’s China /
Hanchao Lu, Georgia Institute of Technology.
Other titles: Art of being ruled in Mao’s China
Description: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge
University Press, 2023. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2022029325 | ISBN 9781009180986 (hardback) |
ISBN 9781009180979 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Shanghai (China) – History – 20th century. | City and town
life – China – Shanghai – 20th century. | Mao, Zedong,
1893–1976 – Influence. | Shanghai (China) – Politics and government – 20th century.
Classification: LCC DS796.S25 L8127 2023 | DDC 951.132–dc23/eng/20220706
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022029325
ISBN 978-1-009-18098-6 Hardback
Cambridge University Press & Assessment has no responsibility for the persistence
or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this
publication and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will
remain, accurate or appropriate.
Shanghai Tai Chi offers a masterful portrait of daily life under socialism
in a rich social and political history of one of the world’s most complex
cities. Hanchao Lu explores the lives of people from all areas of soci-
ety – from capitalists and bourgeois intellectuals to women and youth.
Wielding the metaphor of Tai Chi, he reveals how people in Shang-
hai experienced, adapted to, and manipulated the new Maoist politi-
cal culture launched in 1949. Exploring the multifaceted complexity
of everyday life and material culture in Mao’s China, Lu addresses the
survival of old bourgeois lifestyles under the new proletarian dictator-
ship, the achievements of intellectuals in an age of anti-intellectualism,
the pleasure that urban youth derived from reading taboo literature,
the emergence of women’s liberation and the politics of greening and
horticulture. Lu argues that an undercurrent of non-confrontational
but nevertheless powerful and effective defiance characterized Mao’s
China, paved the way for the post-Mao reform, and illustrated how the
public might, through accommodation and manipulation, resist even
the most repressive of regimes.
Series Editors
Jacob Eyferth, Daniel Leese, Michael Schoenhals
YA
NGZ
QIAOZHEN
IR
IV
ER CHONGMING
JIANGSU
PROVINCE BAOSHAN
JIADING
BAOSHAN
JIADING
URBAN CHUANSHA
EAST
CHUANSHA
DISTRICT CHINA
QINGPU
QINGPU
SEA
XINZHUANG
SONGJIANG HUINAN
NANHUI
SHANGHAI
SONGJIANG
NANQIAO
FENGXIAN
ZHUJIN
JINSHAN
ZHEJIANG
PROVINCE HANGZHOU BAY
d
a
ing
Shanghai
Ro
Sip
Railway
xin Road
Station
oshan
ghe
Ba
Gon
Road
W
gzhi
u
u
Tian
mu Road Chan
Road
5
nin
ho
C
och
ow
Ro
Cree
k 18
a d
Road 19 22
4
21
g Road
Beijin 6
Road
Wa
nh 7 1
g
Road
an njin
Zhongshan d g du roa
d 20 Na 23 s
People’
oa 9
ng
Park 14 Park
gR 13 Road
S h i m en
Sichuan
gnin 15
Han d Renmin
oad
8 Roa
Xizha
Yan’an
Road
’an Road
Yan 3
an R
Road
Road
11
d
Road
16
ngs h
West
Shanghai oad 2
Road
d
Road
i Roa
Henan
Zoo Fuxing
ai
ng R
aih
Roa
Ham
Hu
East Zho
Road
Hongqiao Zhong hua
10
Huangpi
Ho
Airport ng
Ruijing
Lujiabang Road
Shanxi
Road
Chongqi
qia
han
o
Road
jiabang
han
ad
Zhao
Huas
Ro
ngs
1 Municipal People’s Government an
d
Roa
d gs h r
a
Zho
Ro
st
3 Jinjiang Hotel
We
4 Peace Hotel ng
d
5 Shanghai Mansions do
6 Guoji (Park) Hotel Pu
Indoor
Roa
7 Overseas Chinese Store
8 Jing’an Park Stadium Huangpu
9 Shanghai Used-book Store
xi
10 Hengshan Guesthouse Longhua
h
ut
hao
So
C
13 Children’s Palace o Road
14 Shanghai Exhibition Hall Chaba
15 Shanghai Museum Longhua
16 Former Residence of Sun
Yat-sen and Fuxing Park Temple
17 Tomb of Lu Xun
18 Shanghai International Seamen’s Club
19 Friendship Store a d
20 Jing’an Temple Ro
21 Shanghai No. 1 Department Store Shanghai Botanical
min
22 Huangpu Park Hu Garden
23 Shanghai Television Tower
Hanchao Lu
Georgia Institute of Technology
www.cambridge.org
Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9781009180986
DOI: 10.1017/9781009180979
© Hanchao Lu 2023
This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions
of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take
place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press & Assessment.
First published 2023
Printed in the United Kingdom by TJ Books Limited, Padstow Cornwall
A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Lu, Hanchao, author.
Title: Shanghai tai chi : the art of being ruled in Mao’s China /
Hanchao Lu, Georgia Institute of Technology.
Other titles: Art of being ruled in Mao’s China
Description: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge
University Press, 2023. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2022029325 | ISBN 9781009180986 (hardback) |
ISBN 9781009180979 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Shanghai (China) – History – 20th century. | City and town
life – China – Shanghai – 20th century. | Mao, Zedong,
1893–1976 – Influence. | Shanghai (China) – Politics and government – 20th century.
Classification: LCC DS796.S25 L8127 2023 | DDC 951.132–dc23/eng/20220706
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022029325
ISBN 978-1-009-18098-6 Hardback
Cambridge University Press & Assessment has no responsibility for the persistence
or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this
publication and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will
remain, accurate or appropriate.
Shanghai Tai Chi offers a masterful portrait of daily life under socialism
in a rich social and political history of one of the world’s most complex
cities. Hanchao Lu explores the lives of people from all areas of soci-
ety – from capitalists and bourgeois intellectuals to women and youth.
Wielding the metaphor of Tai Chi, he reveals how people in Shang-
hai experienced, adapted to, and manipulated the new Maoist politi-
cal culture launched in 1949. Exploring the multifaceted complexity
of everyday life and material culture in Mao’s China, Lu addresses the
survival of old bourgeois lifestyles under the new proletarian dictator-
ship, the achievements of intellectuals in an age of anti-intellectualism,
the pleasure that urban youth derived from reading taboo literature,
the emergence of women’s liberation and the politics of greening and
horticulture. Lu argues that an undercurrent of non-confrontational
but nevertheless powerful and effective defiance characterized Mao’s
China, paved the way for the post-Mao reform, and illustrated how the
public might, through accommodation and manipulation, resist even
the most repressive of regimes.
Series Editors
Jacob Eyferth, Daniel Leese, Michael Schoenhals
YA
NGZ
QIAOZHEN
IR
IV
ER CHONGMING
JIANGSU
PROVINCE BAOSHAN
JIADING
BAOSHAN
JIADING
URBAN CHUANSHA
EAST
CHUANSHA
DISTRICT CHINA
QINGPU
QINGPU
SEA
XINZHUANG
SONGJIANG HUINAN
NANHUI
SHANGHAI
SONGJIANG
NANQIAO
FENGXIAN
ZHUJIN
JINSHAN
ZHEJIANG
PROVINCE HANGZHOU BAY
d
a
ing
Shanghai
Ro
Sip
Railway
xin Road
Station
oshan
ghe
Ba
Gon
Road
W
gzhi
u
u
Tian
mu Road Chan
Road
5
nin
ho
C
och
ow
Ro
Cree
k 18
a d
Road 19 22
4
21
g Road
Beijin 6
Road
Wa
nh 7 1
g
Road
an njin
Zhongshan d g du roa
d 20 Na 23 s
People’
oa 9
ng
Park 14 Park
gR 13 Road
S h i m en
Sichuan
gnin 15
Han d Renmin
oad
8 Roa
Xizha
Yan’an
Road
’an Road
Yan 3
an R
Road
Road
11
d
Road
16
ngs h
West
Shanghai oad 2
Road
d
Road
i Roa
Henan
Zoo Fuxing
ai
ng R
aih
Roa
Ham
Hu
East Zho
Road
Hongqiao Zhong hua
10
Huangpi
Ho
Airport ng
Ruijing
Lujiabang Road
Shanxi
Road
Chongqi
qia
han
o
Road
jiabang
han
ad
Zhao
Huas
Ro
ngs
1 Municipal People’s Government an
d
Roa
d gs h r
a
Zho
Ro
st
3 Jinjiang Hotel
We
4 Peace Hotel ng
d
5 Shanghai Mansions do
6 Guoji (Park) Hotel Pu
Indoor
Roa
7 Overseas Chinese Store
8 Jing’an Park Stadium Huangpu
9 Shanghai Used-book Store
xi
10 Hengshan Guesthouse Longhua
h
ut
hao
So
C
13 Children’s Palace o Road
14 Shanghai Exhibition Hall Chaba
15 Shanghai Museum Longhua
16 Former Residence of Sun
Yat-sen and Fuxing Park Temple
17 Tomb of Lu Xun
18 Shanghai International Seamen’s Club
19 Friendship Store a d
20 Jing’an Temple Ro
21 Shanghai No. 1 Department Store Shanghai Botanical
min
22 Huangpu Park Hu Garden
23 Shanghai Television Tower
Hanchao Lu
Georgia Institute of Technology
www.cambridge.org
Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9781009180986
DOI: 10.1017/9781009180979
© Hanchao Lu 2023
This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions
of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take
place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press & Assessment.
First published 2023
Printed in the United Kingdom by TJ Books Limited, Padstow Cornwall
A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Lu, Hanchao, author.
Title: Shanghai tai chi : the art of being ruled in Mao’s China /
Hanchao Lu, Georgia Institute of Technology.
Other titles: Art of being ruled in Mao’s China
Description: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge
University Press, 2023. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2022029325 | ISBN 9781009180986 (hardback) |
ISBN 9781009180979 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Shanghai (China) – History – 20th century. | City and town
life – China – Shanghai – 20th century. | Mao, Zedong,
1893–1976 – Influence. | Shanghai (China) – Politics and government – 20th century.
Classification: LCC DS796.S25 L8127 2023 | DDC 951.132–dc23/eng/20220706
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022029325
ISBN 978-1-009-18098-6 Hardback
Cambridge University Press & Assessment has no responsibility for the persistence
or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this
publication and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will
remain, accurate or appropriate.
Shanghai Tai Chi offers a masterful portrait of daily life under socialism
in a rich social and political history of one of the world’s most complex
cities. Hanchao Lu explores the lives of people from all areas of soci-
ety – from capitalists and bourgeois intellectuals to women and youth.
Wielding the metaphor of Tai Chi, he reveals how people in Shang-
hai experienced, adapted to, and manipulated the new Maoist politi-
cal culture launched in 1949. Exploring the multifaceted complexity
of everyday life and material culture in Mao’s China, Lu addresses the
survival of old bourgeois lifestyles under the new proletarian dictator-
ship, the achievements of intellectuals in an age of anti-intellectualism,
the pleasure that urban youth derived from reading taboo literature,
the emergence of women’s liberation and the politics of greening and
horticulture. Lu argues that an undercurrent of non-confrontational
but nevertheless powerful and effective defiance characterized Mao’s
China, paved the way for the post-Mao reform, and illustrated how the
public might, through accommodation and manipulation, resist even
the most repressive of regimes.
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Hanchao Lu
Georgia Institute of Technology
www.cambridge.org
Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9781009180986
DOI: 10.1017/9781009180979
© Hanchao Lu 2023
This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions
of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take
place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press & Assessment.
First published 2023
Printed in the United Kingdom by TJ Books Limited, Padstow Cornwall
A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Lu, Hanchao, author.
Title: Shanghai tai chi : the art of being ruled in Mao’s China /
Hanchao Lu, Georgia Institute of Technology.
Other titles: Art of being ruled in Mao’s China
Description: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge
University Press, 2023. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2022029325 | ISBN 9781009180986 (hardback) |
ISBN 9781009180979 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Shanghai (China) – History – 20th century. | City and town
life – China – Shanghai – 20th century. | Mao, Zedong,
1893–1976 – Influence. | Shanghai (China) – Politics and government – 20th century.
Classification: LCC DS796.S25 L8127 2023 | DDC 951.132–dc23/eng/20220706
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022029325
ISBN 978-1-009-18098-6 Hardback
Cambridge University Press & Assessment has no responsibility for the persistence
or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this
publication and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will
remain, accurate or appropriate.
List of Figurespage x
List of Mapsxii
List of Tablesxiii
Acknowledgmentsxiv
Notes on the Textxvii
Introduction 1
Conclusion 249
Appendix 257
Notes265
References311
Index345
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— Mutta kirjasto…
— Kyllä.
— Ennen ja jälkeen.
— Ja yksin?
— Sitä en usko.
— En valehtele koskaan.
Minä punastuin.
— Se ei ole samaa.
— Tietysti.
Marie Lamirault, kokonaan mustissa, pisti ovesta sisään hienot
kasvonsa, joita ujo hymy kirkasti.
— En tiedä.
— En muista.
— Marie Lamirault.
— On.
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