{"product_id":"9781526132604","title":"Above sea","description":"Author: Jenny Lin\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781526132604\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Manchester University Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 30 Nov 2018\u003cbr\u003ePages: 200 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eShanghai, long known as mainland China's most cosmopolitan city, is today a global cultural capital. This book offers the first in-depth examination of contemporary Shanghai-based art and design - from state-sponsored exhibitions to fashionable cultural complexes to cutting edge films and installations. Informed by years of in-situ research, the book looks beyond contemporary art's global hype to reveal the socio-political tensions accompanying Shanghai's transitions from semi-colonial capitalism to Maoist socialism to Communist Party-sponsored capitalism. Case studies reveal how Shanghai's global aesthetic constructs glamorising artifices that mask the conflicts between vying notions of foreign-influenced modernity and anti-colonialist nationalism, as well as the city's repressed socialist past and its consumerist present. -- .\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47920484122782,"sku":"ING-9781526132604","price":194.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781526132604.jpg?v=1782821714","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781526132604","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}