Shanghai: A Chinese Vision of the Universal
Disciplines
Blog Post
French
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The Universal Exposition Shanghai 2010: Better City, Better Life was a key moment in China’s urbanisation. An ethnographic study of this great ritual founding China’s modernity uncovered the ways in which urban crowds are managed as well as the country’s strategic positioning in a globalised world. As an anthropologist of religion and having lived in Shanghai from 2006 to 2009, here I want to focus on the use of traditional conceptions and practices of urban planning in building this Asian...