A Neighbourhood under Storm Zhabei and Shanghai Wars
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12824311 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christian Henriot (0000-0002-1488-4367, Lyon 1 Université, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 291-319 |
| Publication date | 2010-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of East Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1568-0584 • E-ISSN: 1570-0615 |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/156805810x548775 |
| OpenAlex | W1984878488 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
War was a major aspect of Shanghai history in the first half of the twentieth century. Yet, because of the particular political and territorial divisions that segmented the city, war struck only in Chinese-administered areas. In this paper, I examine the fate of the Zhabei district, a booming industrious area that came under fire on three successive occasions. Whereas Zhabei could be construed as a success story—a rag-to-riches, swamp-to-urbanity trajectory—the three instances of military conflict had an increasingly devastating impact, from shaking, to stifling, to finally erase Zhabei from the urban landscape. This area of Shanghai experienced the first large-scale modern warfare in an urban setting. The 1927 skirmish established the pattern in which the civilian population came to be exposed to extreme forms of violence, was turned overnight into a refugee population, and lost all its goods and properties to bombing and fires
Ancient history · Archaeology · Economic history · Economy · Geography · Meteorology · Neighbourhood (mathematics · Population · Refugee · Sociology · Storm · Urbanity · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Chinese history and philosophy · Demography · History · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
| Citations per year | 0.29 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Highly cited | No |