Shanghai's Dancing World
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Shanghai's Dancing World

Cabaret Culture and Urban Politics, 1919-1954

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Shanghai's Dancing World

Cabaret Culture and Urban Politics, 1919-1954

About this book

Drawing upon a unique and untapped reservoir of newspapers, magazines, novels, government documents, photographs and illustrations, this book traces the origin, pinnacle, and ultimate demise of a commercial dance industry in Shanghai between the end of the First World War and the early years of the People's Republic of China. Delving deep into the world of cabarets, nightclubs, and elite ballrooms that arose in the city in the 1920s and peaked in the 1930s, the book assesses how and why Chinese society incorporated and transformed this westernized world of leisure and entertainment to suit its own tastes and interests. Focusing on the jazz-age nightlife of the city in its "golden age, " the book examines issues of colonialism and modernity, urban space, sociability and sexuality, and modern Chinese national identity formation in a tumultuous era of war and revolution.

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Table of contents

  1. Half Title
  2. Untitled
  3. Untitled
  4. Untitled
  5. Contetns
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Abbreviations
  8. Introduction
  9. From Grand Balls to Jazz Cabarets
  10. Turning Lazy Old Opium Smokers into Spry JazzManiacs
  11. Towers and Palaces
  12. Important Attractions
  13. Improper Amusement
  14. Ballrooms and Bombs
  15. Regulations and Interventions
  16. Resist to the End!
  17. Building a New Society
  18. Epilogue
  19. Appendix 1-4
  20. Notes
  21. Bibliography
  22. Index