This thesis examines 硬盘Yingpan ‘hard drive,’ a newly created online derogatory code word referring to the migrants in Shanghai against the historical background of discrimination of migrants in Shanghai. Based on corpus data from Chinese social media, I examine the usage patterns of this derogatory word. The results show four salient speech acts in which this word is used. These are 1) complaints about migrants, 2) abusive commands, 3) self-victimization of the locals, and 4) lamentation over the loss of Shanghai identity. These usage patterns reflect the impacts of societal changes as a result of mass migration in contemporary China. This study has implications for research of migration and the consequential societal tensions in societies across the globe.

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published_or_final_version / Urban Planning and Environmental Management / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy

published_or_final_version / Social Work and Social Administration / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy

In this dissertation, I would like to focus on the authentic interpretation to patriotic education sites in Shanghai. Before looking into the authentic interpretation, we shall understand the background of patriotic education in China and in Shanghai. Patriotic education is the tradition of Chinese nation and now it’s part of political education in mainland China, whose purpose is to encourage the national to love the country and love the Communist Party of China. Place’s patriotic education is an important way to help the people know the places and come to understand of the patriotic stories happened in the history. With lots of photos, illustrations, sculptures used and many activities advocated, historical stories are commemorated to the public. In this dissertation, I would classify the typology of the patriotic education sites into 10 categories in three different levels and search the typical sites in each category to find out each individual site its age, physical nature of the place, architectural aesthetics/ design, construction, date of opening to the public, date of patriotic education site and level of patriotic education site. This will be the original finding in my dissertation, as to my knowledge, there was never been a category system of the patriotic education sites in Shanghai. To analyze the authenticity to the objective place’s patriotic education, I will attempt to find out the political significance of the site, the authentic location of the site and the authentic fabric of the place. I will try to find out the issues of the authentic location and fabric in the place’s patriotic education. Whether the authenticity of the location and fabric playing an important role in the patriotic education depends on whether they are the part of the history of that time. When the location and fabric in the site are the parts of the education to help the public to understand the stories and the culture of that time, the authenticity of the location and fabric in the sites has a positive impact on the objective of place’s patriotic education. Otherwise, the unauthentic location and fabric will mislead the visitors. But to keep the authentic new location and new fabric will help the later generation to understand why and how we are doing now in the future. / published_or_final_version / Conservation / Master / Master of Science in Conservation

Images of Shikumen Housing have been regularly present as Shanghai’s “collective memory”, serving as testimony to the city’s rapid growth from a backward colonial enter pot into a booming metropolis in the past decades. After 100 years of usage, it is now threatened by modern lifestyle, both functionally and materially. Revitalization is needed to extend the lifespan of the houses within. With a burgeoning enthusiasm towards urban revitalization, various approaches of revitalization have been tried, among which Tianzi Fang(田子坊), located in Taikang Road, Luwan District, is unique for its coexistence of original residents and creative industry practitioners. Results from the case study suggest that Tianzi Fang approach is more welcomed by direct stakeholders as well as visiting tourists. It challenges the conventional mode of urban revitalization by a community-initial approach. This dissertation investigates the case of Tianzi Fang. First hand survey on the spot together with secondary information collected and analyzed to have a comprehensive understanding of the characteristic and process of the revitalization for sustainable development. A literature review commented that the efficiency of public participation was appreciated which contributes a lot to Tianzi Fang’s success. A management proposal is raised at the end of the dissertation as a conclusion of the study and a reference for further research. / published_or_final_version / Conservation / Master / Master of Science in Conservation

Shanghai is often regarded as China’s best embodiment of cosmopolitanism, transcending the local through the purchase of global goods that, in turn, allows its citizens to be part of a post-socialist world. This aspiring outlook of Shanghai is often the result of larger institutional changes, such as the move to a market economy and China’s entry into WTO. Crucial to the understanding of how this state-mediated cosmopolitan culture came to have an impact on the lives of individuals, the key patterns in romantic experiences of young Shanghainese women are discussed in elaborate detail in this thesis. In particular, this study focuses on two specific forces, namely the state and the market, that have greatly shaped the romantic context of cosmopolitan Shanghai. As such, this thesis seeks to answer three key questions: 1) Is it possible that the Chinese state has (re)structured contemporary Shanghainese women’s romantic experiences and, if so, in what ways? 2) Do current findings on the role of the consumer market in shaping romantic practices also apply within the context under study? 3) In what ways have Shanghainese women played out their love lives in the current context? Building a theoretical framework from state-role theory which emphasizes the role of the Chinese state in initiating life-altering social transformations and theory that relates romantic love to the consumer culture and the social organization of advanced capitalism, this thesis asserts that the romantic experiences of young Shanghainese women both mirror and extend the fundamental arguments framing both theories, thus offering new levels of complexity for examining the relationship between romantic love and culture. Through an open-ended interview process following grounded theory principles, 44 respondents (age 25-39) are asked questions regarding their romantic experiences to provide key details from the context under study. The findings of this study suggest that the state and the state-mediated consumer culture has produced contradictions in the romantic experiences of young Shanghainese women. While as cosmopolitan individuals young women are supposed to be desirous and constraint-free in pursuit of their romantic ideals, persistent class and gender hierarchies, and rising economic and emotional uncertainties, nevertheless, undercut their freedom and many of the incentives to realize these ideals. Such freedom is further undercut by mounting pressure from their parents who are primarily dependent on their only daughters, as a result of the family-planning policy and other shifting state policies in the past, for long-term financial and emotional care amidst rising costs and barely functional social welfare programs. Caught in a tension between self desires and traditional role obligations, young women become rational actors in their romantic experiences as they negotiate or even transform the conventionalities by lurching between different understandings of love and varying moralities of self and family to justify their motives and behaviors. As such, their romantic experiences embody the market ethos of consumer capitalism—rational, selfinterested, strategic, and profit-maximizing––complexly entangled in a material and moral environment built by the socialist state. / published_or_final_version / Sociology / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy

With specific reference to junior secondary schools in Shanghai, China, this qualitative empirical study examines the dynamics and complexities of leadership in school and, in particular, citizenship education exercised by principals and school party secretaries (SPSs), who are de facto equally-ranked school leaders. Specifically, it examines, from a macro- and micro-political theoretical perspective, the interactions between these two types of school leaders, and how they respond to the demands of various school stakeholders, including macro-political actors (e.g., the state) and micro-political actors (e.g., other school leaders, teachers, students and parents), at the school level. Data were gathered from document analysis, non-participant observation and semi-structured interviews with 44 school leaders from 24 schools and two educational officials in Shanghai, conducted in 2011. This study has four major findings. First, in addition to the leadership responsibilities inherent to their particular portfolios, the interviewed principals and SPSs were also politically and administratively responsible for leading the school and citizenship education, and struggled to balance these (at times conflicting) responsibilities. Second, there were four major school leadership/citizenship education scenarios in which principals and SPSs were torn between faithfully executing state policy demands, adapting those demands to suit the specific needs and conditions of their school, pursuing their professional autonomy, and addressing the interests of different micro-political actors. Third, principals and SPSs enjoyed a complicated working relationship at the micro-political (school) level in which they collaborated to fulfill their responsibilities and respond to school macro- and micro-political actors, while simultaneously competing for power over school leadership and citizenship education. Fourth, principals’ and SPSs’ leadership in school and citizenship education was shaped by inter-related factors, including diverse influences in a multi-leveled world, the integration of politics and education, the demands of macro- and micro-political actors, and personal factors. To interpret these findings, this study proposes a theoretical framework for understanding leadership in school and citizenship education in China as a political exercise in which school leaders actively use their influence and resources to lead and administer school and citizenship education, resist other school leaders’ (at times contradictory) administrative and political responsibilities, and interact with and mediate between the interests of various actors at the macro- and micro-political levels in response to political, economic and social needs. This theoretical framework is useful for understanding the complexity of school and citizenship education leadership, the micro-political relationship between Chinese principals and SPSs, and their dynamic and complex interactions with macro- and micro-political actors as they fulfill their intertwined political and administrative responsibilities in school leadership and citizenship education. / published_or_final_version / Education / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy

published_or_final_version / Housing Management / Master / Master of Housing Management

published_or_final_version / Education / Master / Master of Education