Shanghai Nightscapes : A Nocturnal Biography of a Global City /

The pulsing beat of its nightlife has long drawn travelers to the streets of Shanghai, where the night scene is a crucial component of the city's image as a global metropolis. In Shanghai Nightscapes, sociologist James Farrer and historian Andrew David Field examine the cosmopolitan nightlife c...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Farrer, James (Autor), Field, Andrew David (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2021]
Temas:
Nightlife > China > Shanghai.
Nightlife-China-Shanghai.
Shanghai (China)-Social life and customs-20th century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
shanghai, metropolis, nightlife, city, urban, travel, tourism, geography, culture, history, nonfiction, dancing, drinking, dance clubs, bars, jazz, ballrooms, nightclubs, cabaret, cosmopolitan, inequality, friction, competition, class, sociability, community, disco, sexuality, foreignness, performance, club hopping, gender, memory, urbanization, globalization, sociology, china, cultural anthropology.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1 Scenes and Nightscapes
  • 2 The Golden Age of the Jazz Cabaret
  • 3 The Fall and Rise of Social Dance
  • 4 Transnational Club Cultures
  • 5 Imbibing Cosmopolitanism
  • 6 Jazz Metropolis
  • 7 Nightlife Sexual Scenes
  • 8 From Interzones to Transzones
  • 9 Nightlife Neighborhoods
  • Notes
  • Index

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