Shanghai''s Dancing World

Name: Shanghai''s Dancing World
Brand: The Chinese University Press
SKU: 9789629964481
Price: 3950 KES
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ISBN: 9789629964481

by Field

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 9629964481

ISBN-13 9789629964481

Publisher The Chinese University Press

Imprint The Chinese University Press

Country of Manufacture HK

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Mar 30th, 2011

Print length 400 Pages

Weight 590 grams

Dimensions 15.60 x 23.00 x 2.00 cms

Product Classification: Asian history Asian history

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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.

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