Guest Speaker:  Xiong Yuezhi, Research Fellow, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences
Date:   2: 00 pm, November 24, 2013 (Sunday)
Venue:  Multifunctional Hall, 4F, Shanghai Library (1555 Huaihai Zhong Road)
Booking code: 131107
Organizer: Shanghai CPPCC Committee of Literature and History, Shanghai Library Lecture Center

Introduction:

Since opening the port, Shanghai has gone through two major changes in society and culture. The first is that different cultures and people gather in Shanghai, making it a society with highly heterogeneous population of immigrants. The second is the mixture of Chinese and foreigners. In modern time, more than 150,000 foreigners lived in Shanghai at maximum, and Shanghai became a blended society. In quite a long time, Shanghai city center was in the concession, and the urban planning and municipal management was dominated by aliens. For their own needs and also for the needs of urban construction, aliens brought Western material civilization, institutional civilization and spiritual civilization to Shanghai, making Shanghai into a city with rich foreign customs. Shanghai people followed suit, thus forming the special governance structure of three divisions, resulting in a strange city management gap. These have brought quite extensive, profound and complex effects on Shang

hai city, including urban landscape, rules and regulations, urban management, public behavior and cultural psychology. Modern Shanghai became a mega-city that was neither Chinese nor Western, of East and West, blending Chinese and Western features.

About the Guest Speaker
Xiong Yuezhi was born in 1949 in Huaiyin County, Jiangsu Province. In the spring of 1978, he was admitted to the Department of History, Suzhou University, and became a graduate student in the the Department of History, East China Normal University in the fall of the same year. He was graduating in 1981 with a master degree. He is currently a research fellow in the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, adjunct professor of Fudan University, Chairman of the Shanghai Historical Society and Vice-Chairman of the Chinese Historical Society.
　
How to Attend the Lecture
1. Tickets are available at the information desk since November 14, 2013.
2. Text Message Booking: readers can text "JZ□Booking Codes□Name" to 021 2573 1500; or access through mobile phone to the Shanghai Library web site at http://m.library.sh.cn.
3. Online Booking: please register and log onto http://www.library.sh.cn/jiang for booking.
Deadline for all bookings is 2 days before the lecture.
Please register 30 minute in advance at the entrance of the Multifunctional Hall after a successful booking.
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