We are pleased to share that Lei Ping, Associate Professor of Chinese Studies and Chair of Languages Department at The New School and a former faculty advisor of ICI, has recently released a new book, “Shanghai Mundane: Survival and Revival of Bourgeois Sentiments under Chinese Socialism.”
This book offers a new critical intervention into the studies of the paradox of Chinese socialism. Centering on the “unremodable” Shanghai bourgeoisie and middle class, the book brilliantly discovers Chinese society’s persistent aspiration to bourgeois lifestyle and remarkable resistance to socialist ideology from the Mao era to the Xi era.