A Cosmopolis Grows Together with a Local Community : The Birth of Modern Shanghai as a Key

コスモポリス　ト　チイキ　コミュニティ　ノ　キョウセイ　モダン　シャンハイ　ノ　ケイセイ　カテイ　ヲ　テガカリニ

Wang, Ye

オオサカ ダイガク ダイガクイン ニンゲン カガク ケンキュウカ シャカイガク ニンゲンガク ジンルイガク ケンキュウシツ

Sociology, Anthropology and Philosophy, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University

コスモポリス

里弄

地域コミュニティ

共生

public space

cosmopolis

linong (the alleyway house)

local community

symbiosis

With the opening of the port in 1843 as a turning point, the foundation of modem life began. In the1930s， Shanghai became one of the biggest cities in the world. Such a miraculous trace has attracted much discussion. Shanghai study became vivid since 1980s. ln sociological field however no big results were recognized. This paper picks up two historian's works, Lee, Leo Ou-Fan, Shanghai Modern: The Flowering of a New Urban Culture in China 1930-1945, and Lu Han-Chao, Beyond the Neon Light: Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century. Lee studied how the city Shanghai influenced the spirit life of its residents. The life style developed from the settlement, which involved the wall city and finally formed the Shanghai urbanism. While Lu noticed the local community, which started from the wall city, thus putting settlement on the extended line. Rebuilding their works from a sociological point of view, we meet two contrasting images of Shanghai, a cosmopolis with a big organ to feel the western culture and a local community with a big closeness to other small cities in China. Although the Shanghai taken in these two pictures has an either western or chinese color, it's the novel space produced by the mix among the western and chinese, also various chinese local cultures. The detail discussion of Lee and Lu may be different. Both show Shanghai as a world for people to live in and come to the conclusion that among the influences helped the establishment of the modem Shanghai, the power of the action and interaction of Shanghai residents can't be ignored. We see how Shanghai developed, we understand what is lost and what is still unresolved.