Building a 'Lofty, Beloved People's Amusement Centre
The socialist transformation of Shanghai's Great World (Dashijie) (1950-58)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3651733 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wenming Xiao (0000-0003-4096-9724, Sun Yat-sen University), Yao Li (0000-0002-1093-3301, University of Florida) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 973-1014 |
| Publication date | 2021-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0026-749X • E-ISSN: 1469-8099 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0026749x20000141 |
| OpenAlex | W3049601077 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 33 |
Based on a detailed case study of the socialist transformation of the Shanghai Great World Amusement Centre (Dashijie), this article documents state-building efforts during the early years of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Between 1950 and 1958, the Communist regime incrementally transformed the power configuration within Dashijie, promoting dramatic changes in its personnel, institutional structures, drama performances, and physical space. Over the course of this process, Dashijie seemed to become a 'loftier' cultural organization in accordance with the aims of its transformation. This transfigured Dashijie, however, fell out of favour with the people of Shanghai. This multifaceted transformation process reflects considerable state capacities on the one hand and illustrates the complexity of state capacities-their unevenness and the limitations of a strong state-on the other. The complexity of state capacities thus shaped and was embedded in the process and outcome of this socialist cultural transformation. Since the Chinese state is once again making strenuous efforts at culture-building, an overview of cultural transformation in the early PRC era has important contemporary implications
Aesthetics · Amusement · Art · China · Communism · Economic system · Economics · People's Republic · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · State (computer science · Transformation (genetics · Chinese history and philosophy · Computer Science · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |