Negotiating Subalternity in a Former Socialist 'Model Community' in Shanghai

From 'Model Proletarians' to 'Society People

Bibliographic Data

ID2174459
AuthorsWing-Chung Ho (0000-0002-7482-7188, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, corresponding author), Wing Chung Ho
Year2005
Volume6
Issue2
Pages159-179
Publication date2005-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCanberra Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0314-9099 • E-ISSN: 1740-9314
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14442210500168283
OpenAlexW2066947262
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited40

In the 1940s, Cucumber Lane was one of the largest shanty towns in Shanghai. After the communist takeover in 1949, its development took place in parallel with the major state-led projects that were launched in subsequent years. The community was turned from an urban slum into a socialist ‘model community’ in the 1960s, then into a ‘civilised small community’ in the 1990s. This paper aims to explore in general the process of negotiating identity on the part of the residents at these two historical junctures, and in particular the conditions under which one particular discourse of identity seemed to result in the hegemony of the residents, whereas the other invoked complicated sentiments filled with apathy and dissent, grumbles and hopes

Aesthetics · Communism · Dissent · Hegemony · Identity (music) · Negotiation · Political economy · Political science · Proletariat · Slum · Sociology · State (computer science) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Chinese history and philosophy · Gender Studies · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Law

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