LEADER 04656oam 2200709I 450 001 9910465429403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-203-06802-5 010 $a1-299-27988-0 010 $a1-135-08143-3 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203068021 035 $a(CKB)2560000000099292 035 $a(EBL)1143874 035 $a(OCoLC)830160803 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000834123 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12365705 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000834123 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10980079 035 $a(PQKB)10275331 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1143874 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1143874 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10672695 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL459238 035 $a(OCoLC)847627514 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000099292 100 $a20180706d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Shanghai alleyway house $ea vanishing urban vernacular /$fGregory Bracken 210 1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (405 p.) 225 1 $aRoutledge contemporary China series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-138-83317-7 311 $a0-415-64071-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Shanghai History; 3. Typogenesis; 4. Architecture; 5. Social life; 6. Cultural life: Film and literature; 7. What Future for the Shanghai Alleyway House?; Appendix 1: Chinese Philosophy and Religion; Appendix 2: Michel Foucault and Post-Structuralism; Notes; Bibliography; Filmography; Index 330 $a"As a nineteenth-century commercial development, the alleyway house was a hybrid of the traditional Chinese courtyard house and the Western terraced one. Unique to Shanghai, the alleyway house was a space where the blurring of the boundaries of public and private life created a vibrant social community. In recent years however, the city's rapid redevelopment has meant that the alleyway house is being destroyed, and this book seeks to understand it in terms of the lifestyle it engendered for those who called it home, whilst also looking to the future of the alleyway house. Based on groundwork research, this book examines the Shanghai alleyway house in light of the complex history of the city, especially during the colonial era. It also explores the history of urban form (and governance) in China in order to question how the Eastern and Western traditions combined in Shanghai to produce a unique and dynamic housing typology. Construction techniques and different alleyway house sub-genres are also examined, as is the way of life they engendered, including some of the side-effects of alleyway house life, such as the literature it inspired, both foreign and local, as well as the portrayal of life in the laneways as seen in films set in the city. The book ends by posing the question: what next for the alleyway house? Does it even have a future, and if so, what lies ahead for this rapidly vanishing typology? This interdisciplinary book will be welcomed by students and scholars of Chinese studies, architecture and urban development, as well as history and literature"--$cProvided by publisher. 330 $a"This book takes the unique housing typology of the Shanghai alleyway house and discusses its role in Shanghai life. Gregory Bracken examines the architecture and history of the alleyway house, its part in the city's cultural and social development, it's portrayal in Chinese film and literature and the future of this unique urban dwelling as Shanghai's rapid redevelopment threatens to destroy the alleyway house, and therefore a slice of Chinese architectural and cultural history, altogether"--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aRoutledge contemporary China series. 606 $aRow houses$zChina$zShanghai 606 $aVernacular architecture$zChina$zShanghai 606 $aAlleys$zChina$zShanghai 606 $aArchitecture and society$zChina$zShanghai 607 $aShanghai (China)$xBuildings, structures, etc 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aRow houses 615 0$aVernacular architecture 615 0$aAlleys 615 0$aArchitecture and society 676 $a720.951 700 $aByrne Bracken$b G$g(Gregory),$0947924 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910465429403321 996 $aThe Shanghai alleyway house$92142648 997 $aUNINA