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Previous studies have examined how popular music is preserved and curated. However, little is known when it comes to the more 'high-brow' and institutionalized western classical music, especially in a non-western context. In this article, we look at Shanghai Symphony Museum, built and renewed from western urban heritage owned first by an upper-class elite, and then the government, co-managed by a property company in the metropolitan city, Shanghai. Through its spatial and curating strategies, we discuss how the elites curate and 'police' the critical moments of the music culture in history, describe, and include it into the 'Haipai Culture' context, and identify themselves with this spontaneously formed culture in contrast to policy-oriented culture from the broader Chinese context. We also include the visitors' feedbacks for gaining a fuller picture. It is argued that renewing and reusing western heritage can become a successful institutional negotiation by policy-makers, designers, organisers, and the visitors. To some extent, this success is derived from both the museum's nature of being an elite space and institution and its approved motivation of developing cultural voice and commercial value. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The "Shanghai Ark" is an urban regeneration project in Shanghai's Hongkou (Hongkew) District, aiming to transform the built environment and cultural legacy of the former Jewish refugee community, Hongkew Ghetto, into the present Shanghai Ark neighbourhood, showcasing the city's and the nation's cosmopolitanism and generosity. This article re-evaluates the notion of representation and explores the interplay among top-down representations, emotional resonances, and atmospheric practices in urban spaces. By employing discourse analysis and ethnographic data, we examine perceptions and practices of various stakeholders, including officials, citywalk leaders, museum curators, residents, local visitors, and foreign visitors. The findings reveal that affective atmospheres emerge from the interweaving of top-down narratives, personal experiences and memories, and emotional resonances between bodies and material environment, as well as the emotional interactions among people. By reconsidering representations in shaping affective atmospheres, this study sheds light on the fluid and dynamic nature of cultural regeneration, offering a deeper understand of the multifaceted experiences and emotions that underlie urban development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

BACKGROUND: The objective of this study was to determine whether surgery for patients with spinal metastasescould improve the quality of remaining life and prolong survival. METHODS: In total, 96 patients who had spinal metastases were recruited from Changzheng Hospital at the Second Military Medical University in Shanghai, China, overthe period from July 2007 to June 2009. The patients received treatments with or without spinal surgery (surgerygroup, n = 46 patients; nonsurgery group, n = 50 patients), and all patients received adjuvant therapies according totheir original cancer and individual conditions. Patients' quality of life (QOL) was assessed at 5 time points-at theinitial diagnosis (baseline) and at 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, and 9 months of followup-using theFunctional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-General QOL questionnaire. Information on survival also was collected.RESULTS: Sixty-seven of 96 patients completed all 5 follow-up assessments, including 33 patients in the surgerygroup and 34 patients in the nonsurgery group. The other 29 patients died within 9 months after the initial diagnosis.At the end of the study (June 2009), 22 patients (47.8%) remained alive in the surgery group, and with 16 patients(32%) remained alive in the nonsurgery group. The surgery group had significantly higher total QOL scores, physicalwell being scores, emotional well being scores, and functional well being scores than the nonsurgery group over the9-month assessment period. There was no statistically significant difference in survival between the 2 groups (P =.056). CONCLUSIONS: The current results indicated that surgical treatment greatly improved and maintained the QOL of patients who had spinal metastases over the 9-month assessment period and that surgery is an effectivetreatment for spinal metastases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]