Based on ethnographic research in a traditional Shanghainese alleyway-house neighborhood (known locally as lilong) during 2013–2015, this study describes how knowledge of the global encourages pragmatic local residents to foresee a different future and voluntarily get involved in the process of urban renewal to enhance their own interests. This study unpacks the notion of architectural heritage as a selling point of dilapidated structures, which is the means through which local residents mobilize their knowledge to benefit themselves in the fight against local government authorities and the market economy. “Gentrification from within” is the concept that I develop in this paper to explain this unique process of demographic change involving capital investment and cultural reproduction, in which the original residents themselves are the key actors in the diversification of a traditional neighborhood.

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来自内部的绅士化：作为人类学过程的城市社会变革

本研究基于 2013 年至 2015 年在上海传统胡同街区（当地人称为里弄）的民族志研究，描述了全球知识如何鼓励务实的当地居民预见不同的未来并自愿参与城市更新过程以提升自己的利益。这项研究揭示了建筑遗产作为破旧结构的卖点的概念，这是当地居民在与地方政府和市场经济的斗争中动员他们的知识来使自己受益的手段。“从内部高档化”是我在本文中提出的概念，用于解释这种涉及资本投资和文化再生产的独特的人口变化过程，