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Beijing from Below

Stories of Marginal Lives in the Capital's Center

Pocket
Engelsk
Beijing from Below
Beijing from Below
  • Forfatter: Harriet Evans
  • Format: Pocket
  • Antall sider: 288
  • Språk: Engelsk
  • Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
  • EAN: 9781478008156
  • Utgivelsesår: 2020
  • Bidragsyter: Evans, Harriet
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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, bu