| Unit name | Shanghai: Culture, Power and History |
|---|---|
| Unit code | HISTM2018 |
| Credit points | 20 |
| Level of study | M/7 |
| Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
| Unit director | Professor. Bickers |
| Open unit status | Not open |
| Pre-requisites |
none |
| Co-requisites |
none |
| School/department | Department of History (Historical Studies) |
| Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
This unit will examine issues in the social, cultural and political history of modern Shanghai. The city was at once China's most important political, commercial and cultural centre and a true capital city for the Chinese twentieth century. Locating itself in a broader literature about colonial cities and modern Chinese urban history. The unit takes a thematic/chronological approach. It explores the influence of the large and cosmopolitan foreign presence (and the limits to that influence), the issue of "Westernisation", the development of a specific Shanghai style, the tradition of political radicalism which marks the city, and the mythologisation of the city by both tChinese and foreigners.
