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Showing 1 to 20 of 193 for “"Shanghai"”.
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Shanghai AroMap
<p>Shanghai AroMap is a memoir about bringing up Chinese/Scottish children in present day Shanghai. The framework for this memoir is a sensory exploration of the city and its history, primarily through olfaction.</p>
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Daughters of Shanghai
Daughters of Shanghai is an historical fiction novel set in China between 1937 and 2014. It is centered around resilient Lucy Lau who struggles to survive war, natural disaster, betrayal, and grief while raising four generations of daughters. She believes that honor comes before duty, and family …
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Ethnographic descriptions of English corners in Shanghai
… the phenomenon of English Comers (EC) in Shanghai. These are informal communities formed for the purpose of practising English. In 1978, just after the death of Mao Ze Dong and the fall of the 'gang of four', many eager Chinese people gathered together to practise their oral English in the …
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The teaching of Shanghainese in Shanghai kindergartens
<p>The Shanghainese language is currently in danger of becoming extinct. An increasing number of Shanghainese youth born in the 1990s are unable to speak Shanghainese. The Shanghai government officially issued a paper on the teaching of Shanghainese in Shanghai kindergartens in May, 2013 as a way …
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A Health Center for Kiangwan Shanghai China
Thesis (M.Arch.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture, 1949.
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Shanghai contemporary : the politics of built form
… the phenomenon of the urban transformation in Shanghai, one of the fastest growing cities in the world. Having once been a lucrative treaty port city, Shanghai has re-embarked on the mission to become an economic global city through a combination of assimilated industrialized cityscape and the …
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Shanghai Cooperation Organization: paper tiger or regional powerhouse
… Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan formed the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in 2001. The inclusion of India, Pakistan, and Iran in 2005 renewed speculation over a new "Great Game" in Central Asia. While this notion is superficially attractive, this thesis delves deeper into what is …
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Leisure and Modernity in late 19th Century Shanghai
… It played an integral role in the formation of Shanghai modernity from the mid nineteenth century. This thesis provides a study of how entertainment culture became an important part of signal associated with modernity of the city in late 19th century and how it reflected urban social and culture …
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Capitalist realism : making art for sale in Shanghai, 1999
… that took place during the development of Shanghai's experimental art-scene in the 1990s, a time when the influx of consumer capitalism was becoming a key mechanism of life in the city. Organized by the artist-curators Xu Zhen, Yang Zhenzhong and Alexander Brandt, the exhibition was divided …
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A flexible infra-architectural system for a Hybrid Shanghai
… building stock. In rapid developing cities like Shanghai, neighborhoods are replaced by higher density buildings every 30 to 40 years. Areas of extreme diversity in population and program have been replaced by high density residential towers that generate a monoculture and lose the richness of …
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Emergence of Special Art Exhibits in Shopping Malls in Shanghai
… shopping malls and special art exhibits in Shanghai. Little research directly addressed this phenomenon from the museum or exhibit perspective. Over the past three years, at least 27 notable art exhibits were installed in shopping malls instead of art museums in Shanghai. Shopping malls …
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THE SONG OF EVERLASTING SORROW: WANG ANYI'S TALE OF SHANGHAI
… of The Song of Everlasting Sorrow - a Novel of Shanghai, translated by Michael Berry and Susan Chan Egan, brought some well-deserved attention to Wang Anyi, an important contemporary Chinese author who had, hitherto, been relatively unknown among Western readers. Since then, her reputation has …
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Tianzifang: a case study of a creative district in Shanghai
… and factory area located in downtown Shanghai, is such a creative district. However, because the contemporary ideas of creative milieux, creative cities, and the creative class have been primarily derived from the West, how do they apply in an Asian Communist society? How do they …
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The Shanghai Capitalist Class and The Nationalist Government, 1927-1937
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-13T20:25:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7606727.pdf: 16666580 bytes, checksum: 645051977b11aeb97789aff14cee9be0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1975
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“Obstructed embrace”: The ID card institution in Shanghai, 1945-1949
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-02-04 without embargo terms
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Collective innovation spaces in Shanghai : spatial patterns and social life/
… and the mechanisms behind it. This thesis takes Shanghai as the study site. Using statistical model and spatial analysis, the study identifies several clusters of collective innovation spaces (CIS) in Shanghai as well as their spatial characteristics. It demonstrates that rental housing units, IT …
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In search of an affordable housing system for Shanghai, China
… (approximately USD 226 per square feet). In Shanghai, the price is about RMB 26,356 per square meter (above USD 376 per square feet), much higher than that in many big cities in developed countries. More and more Chinese urban dwellers, especially those who earn low salaries and live in …
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