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Shanghai Tai Chi: The Art of Being Ruled in Mao's China By Hanchao Lu. xvii + 358 pp. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023.

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Shanghai Tai Chi: The Art of Being Ruled in Mao's China By Hanchao Lu. xvii + 358 pp. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 April 2025

Zoudan Ma
Zoudan Ma*
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The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China
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References

1 W.-H. Yeh, Shanghai Splendor: Economic Sentiments and the Making of Modern China 1843–1949 (Berkeley, 2007), pp. 205–217.

2 See e.g. J. Z. Gao, The Communist Takeover of Hangzhou: The Transformation of City and Cadre 1949–1954 (Honolulu, 2004), pp. 247–251.

3 H. Lu, Beyond the Neon Lights: Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century (Berkeley, 2005), pp. 315–322.

4 E. Hobsbawm, ‘Peasant and politics’, Journal of Peasant Studies 1.1 (1973), pp. 3–22; E. Le Roy Ladurie, Tithe and Agrarian History from the Fourteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries: An Essay in Comparative History, (trans.) J. Goy and S. Burke (Cambridge, 1982); J. Scott, Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance (New Haven, 1985); M. Szonyi, The Art of Being Governed: Everyday Politics in Late Imperial China (Princeton, 2017).