上海
The Old Shanghai A-Z 豆瓣
作者: Paul French Hong Kong University Press 2010 - 11
This richly anecdotal guide to every street in Shanghai details many landmarks and stories associated with its best-known avenues. A definitive index to the street names of Shanghai, some of which have disappeared or been removed, allows historians, researchers, tourists, and the just plain curious to navigate the city in its pre-1949 incarnations, through the former International Settlement, French Concession, and External Roads area with a detailed map and alphabetical entry for every road.
The book is lavishly illustrated with old advertising, images, and postcards of the streets and businesses, the bars and nightclubs, the people and characters of old Shanghai bringing alive the city in its previous heyday as the Pearl of the Orient. The Old Shanghai A-Z should become the standard reference work as well as being an easy-to-use guide for researchers and visitors looking to recapture the glamour and uniqueness of old Shanghai.
繁花 豆瓣 Goodreads
8.7 (281 个评分) 作者: 金宇澄 上海文艺出版社 2013 - 3
这是一部地域小说,人物的行走,可找到“有形”地图的对应。这也是一部记忆小说,六十年代的少年旧梦,辐射广泛,处处人间烟火的斑斓记忆,九十年代的声色犬马,是一场接一场的流水席,叙事在两个时空里频繁交替,传奇迭生,延伸了关于上海的“不一致”和错综复杂的局面,小心翼翼的嘲讽,咄咄逼人的漫画,暗藏上海的时尚与流行;昨日的遗漏,或是明天的启示……即使繁花零落,死神到来,一曲终了,人犹未散。
《繁花》让人为之一震,小说的好处自有高人评说----程永新
优雅之野心,当今几乎不可能出现的文体----张辛欣
近年来最有看头的小说---吴亮
1942—1945:我的上海沦陷生活 豆瓣
作者: 颜滨 著 / 采金 整理 人民出版社 2015 - 6
1942年上海全面沦陷后,一个普通市民,十九岁五金店店员的日记,真实再现了抗战时期日伪统治下普通上海市民的日常生活情景。小店员的日记,记载日常生活的点点滴滴,详尽自然,生动活泼,真情流露,喜怒哀乐尽在其中,将七十多年前沦陷区最底层老百姓,特别是作者本人以及与作者关系密切的十几个青年人的工作、学习、娱乐、恋爱、社交等生活状况,真实地呈现在了我们面前,让我们好似身临其境,真切感受到了也触摸到了这段历史,丰富了我们的感觉和视觉。这部书,信息量巨大,是难得的极其宝贵的历史资料,具有很高的直接史料的价值,是想研究和了解那段历史者所必须参考的。这也是一部励志书,作者一生的奋斗,曲折多舛的命运,令我们感叹不已。
上海简史 豆瓣
A SHORT HISTORY OF SHANGHAI
作者: F.L.Hawks Pott, D.D 五洲传播出版社 2010 - 1
First published in 1928, the author aimed to to write this brief history of the International Settlement of Shanghai.
He failed to realize the difficulty of the task. Messrs. George Lanning and Samuel Couling gathered a large amount of material concerning the early days, but no one continued what they began, and therefore a good deal of spade work became necessary.
Many books have been consulted. A list of which is published at the end of the volume, and the columns of the North-China Herald have proved invaluable.
Another difficulty presented itself in regard to the public for which he was writing. He tried to bear in mind that it was for a larger public than for the residents of Shanghai. Many incidents might be of interest to those who live in the Settlement but would not be of much importance to the public at large. By some, probably, the criticism will be raised that the book lacks local colors, while others will perhaps object that too much reference has been made to matters that are of no concern to the rest of the world. It was hard to please the tastes of both classes.
As the book developed several things became apparent. It was evident that the history of Shanghai was difficult to condense, and that there was room for a bigger volume than this. There are so many details that it would have been easier to have depicted it on a larger canvas.
One also realized that in order to understand what has happened in Shanghai, considerable reference to Chinese contemporary history was necessary, and there was always a temptation to wander away from what was strictly the history of Shanghai to that of China.
打造消費天堂 豆瓣
作者: 連玲玲 中央研究院近代史研究所 2017
本書以「消費主義」為核心概念,探討百貨公司在近代中國的意義,特別思考這種資本 主義的企業組織如何藉由創造全新的消費經驗,傳播現代消費主義。百貨公司與傳統商 店最明顯的差異在於規模:建築之大,往往占據整個街區;商品之多,足以涵蓋人生所 有需求;而其經營原則乃以交易量極大化,來達成利潤極大化的目標。不過,百貨公司 不只是人與物的集散地,也是觀察社會關係的視鏡及權力再現的空間。由於這個行業在 階級、國族、性別等層面有較為複雜的組成元素,我們可以藉此打破許多既定的界線, 重新析論上海城市文化的內涵。從「人」的角度來看,百貨公司原意是對所有人出售所 有物品的「環球供應商」,是華人/洋人、男人/女人、中產階級/勞工階級的交會處, 然而在消費主義的運作邏輯下,不同的人群卻得到不同的待遇。從「物」的角度來看, 表面上看似「中性」的商品與消費行為,卻在消費主義的實踐中,被貼上階級、國籍、 性別的屬性標籤。因此,五光十色的百貨公司不僅是現代物質文明的展示櫥窗,也是我 們理解城市文化的一把鑰匙。如果說,近代上海的傳奇建立在以消費主義為基礎的人、 物關係上,而百貨公司正是人、物互動的實踐場域,既充滿了魅惑與慾望,也承載著矛 盾和爭議。