Life History in the Memory of Slums

Author: Chen Yingfang
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Features: "Shantytown" has been a large-scale and uniquely shaped urban slum in the history of modern Shanghai. Before the 1980s, the residents were primarily lower-class migrants who moved to Shanghai from all over the country before the mid-1950s, with a small portion being the original "local" inhabitants and sporadic residents who moved in after the mid-1950s. This book is part of the "Modern Urban Society Studies Series" and, through extensive research on people and events, elaborates on the living conditions of the urban poor in Shanghai. The transformation and expansion of urban society are one of the most important and profound aspects of contemporary Chinese social change. How to record, describe, and explain such a process of social change requires the collective efforts of researchers in urban social studies from various disciplines. Due to the content of urban social studies involving aspects from population ecology, spatial morphology, social structure to social life, social consciousness, as well as human behavior and psychology, and also involving the context of globalization and the transregional and transcultural commonalities of cities as a social type, the difficulty of its research lies not only in the need for empirical investigation and interdisciplinary cross-study but also in the necessity for comparative studies at various forms and levels, including international, intercity comparisons and contrasts.