Shanghai Nightscapes - A Nocturnal Biography of a Global City

Informationen zum Autor James Farrer is professor of sociology and global studies at Sophia University! Tokyo! and author of Opening Up: Youth Sex Culture and Market Reform in Shanghai! also published by the University of Chicago Press. Andrew David Field is the author of Shanghai's Dancing World: Cabaret Culture and Urban Politics! 1919-1954 and Mu Shiying: China's Lost Modernist. Klappentext Drawing on over years of fieldwork and hundreds of interviews! the authors spotlight a largely hidden world of nighttime pleasures - the dancing! drinking! and socializing going on in dance clubs and bars that have flourished in Shanghai over the last century. Zusammenfassung Drawing on over years of fieldwork and hundreds of interviews! the authors spotlight a largely hidden world of nighttime pleasures - the dancing! drinking! and socializing going on in dance clubs and bars that have flourished in Shanghai over the last century.

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• Authors: James Farrer, James Field Farrer, Farrer James, Andrew David Field, Andrew David Farrer Field, Field Andrew David
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.08.2015
• EAN: 9780226262741
• ISBN: 978-0-226-26274-1
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; China, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Holidays (non-religious), Sociology: sport & leisure, Sociology: sport and leisure, Urban communities