Shanghai love: (Record no. 222006)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780295985671
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Transcribing agency Aloy
041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE
Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng
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Edition number 23
Classification number 306.095
Item number YEHS
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Personal name Catherine Vance Yeh
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9 (RLIN) 26090
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Title Shanghai love:
Remainder of title courtesans, intellectuals and entertainment culture 1850-1910
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. London
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. University of Washington Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2006
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent x,430 p.
Other physical details HB
Dimensions 26x18 cm.
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Source of price type code Sociology
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Summary, etc. In this fascinating book, Catherine Yeh explores the Shanghai entertainment world at the close of the Qing dynasty. Established in the 1850s outside of the old walled city, the Shanghai Foreign Settlements were administered by Westerners and so were not subject to the strict authority of the Chinese government. At the center of the dynamic new culture that emerged was the courtesan, whose flamboyant public lifestyle and conspicuous consumption of modern goods set a style that was emulated by other women as they emerged from the "inner quarters" of traditional Chinese society.<br/>Many Chinese visitors and sojourners were drawn to the Foreign Settlements. Men of letters seeking a living outside of the government bureaucracy found work in the Settlements’ burgeoning print industry and formed the new class of urban intellectuals. Courtesans fled from oppressive treatment and the turmoil of uprisings elsewhere in China and found unprecedented freedom in Shanghai to redefine themselves and their profession.<br/>As the entertainment industry developed, publications sprang up to report on and promote it. Journalists and courtesans found that their interests increasingly coincided, and the Settlements became a cosmopolitan playground. Ritualized role-play based on novels such as Dream of the Red Chamber elevated the status of courtesan entertainment and led to culturally rich interactions between courtesans and their clients. As participants acted out the stories in public, they introduced modern notions of love and romance that were radically at odds with the traditional roles of men and women. Yet because social change arrived in the form of entertainment, it met with little resistance.<br/>Yeh shows how this fortuitous combination of people and circumstances, rather than official decisions or acts, created the first multicultural modern city in China. With illustrations from newspapers, novels, travel guides, and postcards, as well as contemporary written descriptions of life in foreign-driven, fast-paced, cutting-edge Shanghai, this study traces the mutual influences among courtesans, intellectuals, and the city itself in creating a modern, market-oriented leisure culture in China. Historians, literary specialists, art critics, and social scientists will welcome this captivating foray into the world of late nineteenth-century popular culture.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Social Conditions
9 (RLIN) 25389
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Topical term or geographic name entry element China History
9 (RLIN) 25390
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Personal name YEH (Catherine Vance)
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Sociology St Aloysius Library St Aloysius Library 03/24/2013   306.095 YEHS GF03104 03/23/2022 03/23/2022 George Fernandes Collections