Reading edition · draft manuscript

Locating Shanghai

Globalisation, Heritage Industry, and the Economy of Urban Space

Non Akara

For Ted Bestor (1951–2024) — who taught me what a city was when it was looked at slowly.

Field archive, 134 photographs · The packed block

1. PrologueShanghai Before Shanghai
2. IntroductionWhere Do You Live?
3. Acknowledgments
4. Chapter 1A Community at the Centre of the World
5. Chapter 2Traditionalism as a Way of Life
6. Chapter 3A Sad Trope: Inside the Pavilion Room
7. Chapter 4Street Corner Society and Displacement
8. Chapter 5Middleclassification
9. Chapter 6The Rise and Fall of the Value-Added Economy
10. Chapter 7The Meaning of Being a Man
11. ConclusionReading the City Slowly
12. Bibliography

Chicago footnotes open as sheets. Photographs sit in the field archive and beside each chapter. Diagrams live in the text — start with the packed lilong block in Chapter 1. Reading position saves on this phone.