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Shanghai
L'ordinaire et l'exceptionnel
Françoise Ged

In the early 1980s, at age 25, Françoise Ged went to China for the first time. An architect by training, she worked as a French assistant at the University of Shanghai. She was stunned by the huge difference between what she had studied and learned about in Paris and what she actually encountered in China. Françoise Ged takes us on short strolls and long walks through Shanghai, a city she got to know gradually, and where she eventually decided to live. From 1980 to the present, the radical changes to this city reflect those that took place all over China: to its inhabitants, its buildings, its habits, situations and more. As the city was razed and rebuilt, its habitants had no choice but to adapt to an environment not of their choosing. On the surface, everything seems fine, as is often the case in China. In reality, certain cancers, for instance, are far more frequent than they used to be.

Françoise Ged wrote this book in the first person. She uses her own personal experience in China and Shanghai to highlight the most common traits in this society as well as the changes that have occured over the past three decades.

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  • Publication date : 13/03/2014
  • Size : 14 x 20,5 cm, 160 p., 16,00 EUR €
  • ISBN 978-2-283-02757-8
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