Published: 2021-11-08

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

Tina Kanagaratnam Logo ORCID
Section: Essays and Articles
https://doi.org/10.31261/SSP.2021.18.02

Abstract

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

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Vol. 18 No. 2 (2021)
Published: 2021-11-10


ISSN: 2084-0772
eISSN: 2353-0928

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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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