Shanghai's dancing world : cabaret culture and urban politics, 1919-1954 / Andrew David Field.
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| Format: | Thesis Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Hong Kong : Chinese University Press, [2010], ©2010. |
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Table of Contents:
- From grand balls to jazz cabarets: Westerners and jazz-age culture in Shanghai, 1919-1926
- Turning lazy old opium smokers in spry jazz maniacs: the rise of Chinese dance madness and the first Chinese cabarets, 1927-1931
- Towers and palaces: ballroom architecture and interior design, 1919-1936
- Important attractions: cabaret hostesses and the popularization of cabaret culture in Chinese society, 1932-1937
- Improper amusement: Chinese patrons, Chinese nationalist politics, and cabaret culture, 1932-1937
- Ballrooms and bombs: cabarets, underground intrigue, and occupation politics, 1937-1941
- Regulations and interventions: cabarets under Japanese and nationalist occupation, 1942-1947
- Resist to the end!: the nationalist government's ban on cabarets and the dancers' uprising of 1948
- Building a new society: the demise of cabarets under the CCP, 1949-1954.