Locating Shanghai 中

Reading edition · 2026

Locating Shanghai

Globalisation, Heritage Industry, and the Economy of Urban Space

Non Arkaraprasertkul (Non Arkara)

Harvard dissertation record · Academia

The same lane, ten years apart: fieldwork in 2013 and the return in 2023
The same lane, ten years apart — fieldwork in 2013, and the return in 2023
Chapters15
Words64,679
Images134
Audio7h 01m

20

years2006 — 2026

For Ted Bestor (1951–2021) — who taught me what a city was when it was looked at slowly.

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Read Start at the Prologue — a television at the top of a staircase in Bangkok. Start reading →
Listen Eleven episodes, one per chapter, in a Microsoft neural voice — a conversation about the book, not a reading of it. All episodes →
Look 134 images across twenty years — dense where the fieldwork was, quiet where the city was closed. Laid out as one timeline.
2006: 12007: 12008: 02009: 02010: 12011: 92012: 32013: 122014: 282015: 172016: 62017: 02018: 42019: 12020: 02021: 02022: 02023: 112024: 52025: 122026: 14
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  1. PrologueShanghai Before Shanghai
  2. IntroductionWhere Do You Live?
  3. Chapter 1A Community at the Centre of the World
  4. Chapter 2Traditionalism as a Way of Life
  5. Chapter 3A Sad Trope: Inside the Pavilion Room
  6. Chapter 4Street Corner Society and Displacement
  7. Chapter 5Gentrification from Within
  8. Chapter 6The Rise and Fall of the Value-Added Economy
  9. Chapter 7The Meaning of Being a Man
  10. ConclusionReading the City Slowly
  11. CodaAfter the Field
  12. Acknowledgments
  13. Bibliography
  14. CitationsHow the Work Has Been Received
  15. The Universe of Research on ShanghaiWhere to Go Next

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