Prologue

1 China Dream, Chinese Dream

2 Set as a time of revival

Shanghai as a space that must be filled with new time

Monsters Born from the 3rd Empire

4 Heritage

Why Call It Heritage | The Ghosts Who Erased China | Gates and Numbers

5 Modern

Republic of China, The Rise of the Han Chinese | The Chinese Order, Confucianism | Modern Girl, Shanghai Gunyang

6 Spotty Socialism

Socialist Gentrification | Combining Two Legacies: Imperialism and Socialism | The People, the People | The Factories Left Behind

7 Chinese Stylish

Contemporary Chinese Style | Chinese Retro Modern and Chinese Simulation | Fake Nostalgia

8 Utopia

The Space of 'Light' | What is 'Beauty'?

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The moderately prosperous society and the Chinese dream of the new era,
A present yet unrealistic space-time

Since actively embracing state neoliberalism, China's major cities have had no choice but to transform themselves.
These changes first manifested themselves as national projects to connect Shanghai to other regions or to renovate the physical infrastructure for a new transportation system within Shanghai, but ultimately they were perceived as new forms of capitalist consumer culture.
The consumer culture that was rejected during the New China period has been transformed into a positive image as we enter the post-socialist era.
Here, a dramatic spatial transformation takes place, where the point of production becomes the point of consumption, and this creates a unique consumer culture unique to the city of Shanghai.
From the reform and opening up in 1978 until the introduction of state neoliberalism in 2000, Shanghai continued to divide and reorganize new spaces of production and consumption.
This is where Shanghai's 'emotional spaces' came into being.


Moreover, Shanghai has transformed the lives of the Chinese people through a new contemporary spatial transformation more than any other city in China.
From the beginning, Shanghai did not create emotional spaces under the direct planning of the Chinese government.
These changes began purely with the capital gains of foreign capitalists who had invaded from outside Shanghai, and the Chinese government actively absorbed these personal and capitalist gains as national gains, organizing and activating emotional spaces in a more systematic way.
What remains now is the successful combination of economic gains and cultural and emotional spaces that Shanghai can create under Chinese state capitalism.
To put it in Chinese terms, the Chinese dream is achieved right here.
The Chinese people, who left for the United States with the 'American Dream' in their hearts, are now completing the 'China Dream' in Shanghai.

Shanghai is a place where the state has established a state-led cultural industry system based on a special post-socialist orientation of new era and state neoliberalism, and is the first place where the future is realized in the present.
Shanghai will also become a concrete city that 'realizes the great dream of national revival.'
Expectations remain high as to whether the 20th-century monsters born from 19th-century imperialism can become another aesthetic standard in the future of the 21st century.
Of course, the 21st century has already begun.
Shanghai is a stepping stone for China to open up and move forward into the 21st century.
And this is the starting point for a spatial transformation in post-socialist China, which is trying to reorganize this time.