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Beijing from Below
Stories of Marginal Lives in the Capital's Center
Taschenbuch von Harriet Evans
Sprache: Englisch

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Between the early 1950s and the accelerated demolition and construction of Beijing's "old city" in preparation for the 2008 Olympics, the residents of Dashalar-one of the capital city's poorest neighborhoods and only a stone's throw from Tian'anmen Square-lived in dilapidated conditions without sanitation. Few had stable employment. Today, most of Dashalar's original inhabitants have been relocated, displaced by gentrification. In Beijing from Below Harriet Evans captures the last gasps of subaltern life in Dashalar. Drawing on oral histories that reveal memories and experiences of several neighborhood families, she reflects on the relationships between individual, family, neighborhood, and the state; poverty and precarity; gender politics and ethical living; and resistance to and accommodation of party-state authority. Evans contends that residents' assertion of belonging to their neighborhood signifies not a nostalgic clinging to the past, but a rejection of their marginalization and a desire for recognition. Foregrounding the experiences of the last of Dashalar's older denizens as key to understanding Beijing's recent history, Evans complicates official narratives of China's economic success while raising crucial questions about the place of the subaltern in history.
Between the early 1950s and the accelerated demolition and construction of Beijing's "old city" in preparation for the 2008 Olympics, the residents of Dashalar-one of the capital city's poorest neighborhoods and only a stone's throw from Tian'anmen Square-lived in dilapidated conditions without sanitation. Few had stable employment. Today, most of Dashalar's original inhabitants have been relocated, displaced by gentrification. In Beijing from Below Harriet Evans captures the last gasps of subaltern life in Dashalar. Drawing on oral histories that reveal memories and experiences of several neighborhood families, she reflects on the relationships between individual, family, neighborhood, and the state; poverty and precarity; gender politics and ethical living; and resistance to and accommodation of party-state authority. Evans contends that residents' assertion of belonging to their neighborhood signifies not a nostalgic clinging to the past, but a rejection of their marginalization and a desire for recognition. Foregrounding the experiences of the last of Dashalar's older denizens as key to understanding Beijing's recent history, Evans complicates official narratives of China's economic success while raising crucial questions about the place of the subaltern in history.
Über den Autor
Harriet Evans is the Sunday Times bestselling author of eight novels, most recently A Place For Us, which have been published in over twenty countries. She lives in London with her family and is working on her ninth novel, The Butterfly Summer. She loves old films, karaoke, jumpsuits, sitcoms and the countryside. You can contact her on Twitter [...]
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Rubrik: Sozialwissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 286
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781478008156
ISBN-10: 1478008156
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Evans, Harriet
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 18 mm
Von/Mit: Harriet Evans
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.05.2020
Gewicht: 0,468 kg
preigu-id: 117502996
Über den Autor
Harriet Evans is the Sunday Times bestselling author of eight novels, most recently A Place For Us, which have been published in over twenty countries. She lives in London with her family and is working on her ninth novel, The Butterfly Summer. She loves old films, karaoke, jumpsuits, sitcoms and the countryside. You can contact her on Twitter [...]
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Rubrik: Sozialwissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 286
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781478008156
ISBN-10: 1478008156
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Evans, Harriet
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 18 mm
Von/Mit: Harriet Evans
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.05.2020
Gewicht: 0,468 kg
preigu-id: 117502996
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