ANDREW FIELD is an independent scholar of Chinese history and culture living and working in Shanghai.
发表于2024-12-22
Shanghai's Dancing World 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
图书标签: Shanghai's Dancing 上海 World 历史 文化史 城市 老上海风情
This book looks into a relatively ignored yet interesting aspect of Shanghai's social history.
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 their 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, 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.
上流舞场
评分典型的西方学者视角,有关旧上海舞场文化的精彩佳作。
评分上流舞场
评分上流舞场
评分Shanghai's Dancing
Shanghai's Dancing World 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书