Shanghai’s Dancing World: Cabaret Culture and Urban Politics, 1919–1954

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Contents List of Illustrations ix Preface and Acknowledgements xi Abbreviations xvii Introduction 1 Part I. The Social 1 From Grand Balls to Jazz Cabarets 19 Westerners and Jazz-Age Culture in Shanghai, 1919–1926 2 Turning Lazy Old Opium Smokers into Spry Jazz Maniacs 53 The Rise of Chinese Dance Madness and the First Chinese Cabarets, 1927–1931 3 Towers and Palaces 83 Ballroom Architecture and Interior Design, 1929–1936 4 Important Attractions 119 Cabaret Hostesses and the Popularization of Cabaret Culture in Chinese Society, 1932–1937 5 Improper Amusement 153 Chinese Patrons, Chinese Nationalist Politics, and Cabaret Culture, 1932–1937 Part II. The Political 6 Ballrooms and Bombs 177 Cabarets, Underground Intrigue, and Occupation Politics, 1937–1941 Shanghai.indb 7 2010/5/11 11:47:24 AM viii · Contents 7 Regulations and Interventions 207 Cabarets under Japanese and Nationalist Occupation, 1942–1947 8 Resist to the End! 233 The Nationalist Government’s Ban on Cabarets and the Dancers’ Uprising of 1948 9 Building a New Society 263 The Demise of Cabarets under the CCP, 1949–1954 Epilogue 285 Appendices 1–4 293 Notes 309 Bibliography 335 Index 343 Shanghai.indb 8 2010/5/11 11:47:25 AM ...