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The Shanghai Alleyway House
A Vanishing Urban Vernacular
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
As a nineteenth-century commercial development, the alleyway house was a hybrid of the traditional Chinese courtyard house and the Western terraced one. Unique to Shanghai, the alleyway house was a space where the blurring of the boundaries of public and private life created a vibrant social...
To Be Published February 19th 2013 by Routledge