포스트사회주의 중국의 상하이 글쓰기와 도시공간 담론

This study concentrates on the post-socialist China which entered a stage of post-socialism before the collapse of actually existing socialism of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Post-socialist aspect of China has been prominently exposed in Shanghai. This article focuses on the “writing Shanghai(書寫上海)” in the post-socialist era. So-called “writing Shanghai”, like “novel China” and “cinema Shanghai”, refers to write about Shanghai. Ya-ming Bao, who had studied about Shanghai bar as a distinct feature of Shanghai culture, categorized the politics of nostalgia as a nostalgia trend, an elite narrative, an intellectual discourse. This article based on Ya-Ming Bao's three categories and expand them to the dimension of writing Shanghai. Among them, an intellectual discourse was closely related with the recent discourse on urban space. We could also make a guess at the way out of China, which is in transition, through writing Shanghai. While the nostalgia trend is inclined to the victory of capitalism, the intellectual discourse is close to adherence to socialism, and the elite narrative is located somewhere between both sides. This article prospects the third way. It is the “dialectical unification of socialism and capitalism”(Marx, Karl), the third way which is rising between “dominant capitalism” and “the remained socialism”(Williams, Raymond), the “horizontal consilience between socialism and capitalism”(Shim, Kwang-hyun).