Shanghai Dancing World Cabaret Culture and Urban Politics 1919 1954 First Edition by Andrew David Field 9789629964481 9629964481

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ISBN 10: 9629964481
ISBN 13: 9789629964481 
Author: Andrew David Field

Drawing upon a unique and untapped reservoir of sources, this study 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 1920s, the book assesses how and why Chinese society incorporated and transformed this westernized world of leisure and entertainment. Focusing on the jazz-age nightlife of the city in its “golden age,” the work examines issues of colonialism and modernity, jazz and African-American culture, urban space, sociability and sexuality, and latter-day Chinese national identity formation in a tumultuous era of war and revolution.

Shanghai Dancing World Cabaret Culture and Urban Politics 1919 1954 First Table of contents:

• Chapter 1: From Grand Balls to Jazz Cabarets – Westerners and Jazz-Age Culture in Shanghai, 1919-1926
• Chapter 2: Turning Lazy Old Opium Smokers into Spry Jazz Maniacs – The Rise of Chinese Dance Madness and the First Chinese Cabarets, 1927-1931
• Chapter 3: Towers and Palaces – Ballroom Architecture and Interior Design, 1929-1936
• Chapter 4: Important Attractions – Cabaret Hostesses and the Popularization of Cabaret Culture in Chinese Society, 1932-1937
• Chapter 5: Improper Amusement – Chinese Patrons, Chinese Nationalist Politics, and Cabaret Culture, 1932-1937

Part II: The Political

• Chapter 6: Ballrooms and Bombs – Cabarets, Underground Intrigue, and Occupation Politics, 1937-1941
• Chapter 7: Regulations and Interventions – Cabarets under Japanese and Nationalist Occupation, 1942-1947
• Chapter 8: Resist to the End! – The Nationalist Government’s Ban on Cabarets and the Dancers’ Uprising of 1948
• Chapter 9: Building a New Society – The Demise of Cabarets under the CCP, 1949-1954

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