Bricks in the Shanghai Landscape: Revealing the City’s Shifting Identities

Tina Kanagaratnam

doi:10.31261/SSP.2021.18.02

Opublikowane: 2021-11-08

Tom 18 Nr 2 (2021)

Bricks in the Shanghai Landscape: Revealing the City’s Shifting Identities

Tina Kanagaratnam

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https://doi.org/10.31261/SSP.2021.18.02

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This paper considers the parallels between the changes in Shanghai’s brick usage through history and the city’s shifting identities. Taking a new angle on studies of the Chinese wall, the author looks at the most basic element of the wall – the brick – in the context of Shanghai’s social and political history and postcolonial theory and proposes that it was the changes in the city’s identity, precipitated by both internal and external forces, that have ultimately driven the selection and subsequent interpretation of brick types during different periods of history. This paper also considers how brick usage is employed today to reinterpret history and define heritage.

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bricks , Shanghai , lilong , material history , Hai-Pai

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Kanagaratnam, T. (2021). Bricks in the Shanghai Landscape: Revealing the City’s Shifting Identities. Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne, 18(2), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.31261/SSP.2021.18.02

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Tom 18 Nr 2 (2021)
Opublikowane: 2021-11-10

ISSN: 2084-0772

eISSN: 2353-0928

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