SHANGHAI NIGHTSCAPES: A NOCTURNAL BIOGRAPHY OF A GLOBAL CITY

Book ID/图书代码： 13560015B79949

English Summary/英文概要： 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 culture that first arose in Shanghai in the 1920s and that has been experiencing a revival since the 1980s. Drawing on over twenty 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.

The book begins by examining the history of the jazz-age dance scenes that arose in the ballrooms and nightclubs of Shanghai’s foreign settlements. During its heyday in the 1930s, Shanghai was known worldwide for its jazz cabarets that fused Chinese and Western cultures. The 1990s have seen the proliferation of a drinking, music, and sexual culture collectively constructed to create new contact zones between the local and tourist populations. Today’s Shanghai night scenes are simultaneously spaces of inequality and friction, where men and women from many different walks of life compete for status and attention, and spaces of sociability, in which intercultural communities are formed. Shanghai Nightscapes highlights the continuities in the city’s nightlife across a turbulent century, as well as the importance of the multicultural agents of nightlife in shaping cosmopolitan urban culture in China’s greatest global city.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 上海充满活力的夜生活吸引了无数旅行者，夜间的风景绝对是这座城市作为国际大都市最为关键的组成部分。在本书中，社会学家James Farrer和历史学家Andrew David Field一起解读了上世纪20年代上海灯红酒绿的夜生活文化，这种风俗在80年代又开始复兴了。本书建立在超过二十年实地探访和上百次采访的基础之上，作者希望能够最大限度地展现夜生活不被很多人了解的愉快和魅力，比如跳舞、饮酒、以及在舞会和酒吧中的社交活动等等，这些在上世纪的上海都是相当发达的。

本书先回顾了爵士时代的舞会场景，当时上海租界内有很多类似的舞厅和俱乐部。在30年代全盛时期，上海的海派爵士夜总会是世界闻名的。到了90年代，饮酒、音乐和性文化复兴为本地人和游客群体重新建立起了联系。今日的上海夜生活自然而然地充满了不平等和摩擦，来自不同行业和背景的男人女人互相争夺关注和地位，同时也是充满了社交和互动的，因为跨文化的社区由此产生了。本书特别展现了这座城市夜生活一个世纪以来的种种变化，同时也展现了跨文化的交融对于这座城市而言是多么地重要。(LYR)

Awards/获奖情况：在本书中，Farrer和Field通过历史和人种学的方法从新的角度探讨了一个吸引了无所学者、小说家、记者以及旅行书籍作家的问题。这个问题就是：上海曾经辉煌的爵士时代究竟给今天这个世界化的大都市遗留下了什么，让这里再一次成为了能够将外来的想法、时尚和生活方式源源不断地融入到中国传统之中去的港口？取材于虚构作品、历史档案、采访实录以及个人观察，这两位作者提供了有关上海夜生活在两个不同世纪的生动描述。他们也展现了如何通过观察不同文化和背景的人们在舞厅、迪厅、俱乐部以及酒吧的表现来研究一个都市的变化和传承。（Jeffrey Wasserstrom，著有《Global Shanghai and China in the 21st Century》）

“In Shanghai Nightscapes, Farrer and Field use historical and ethnographic methods to shed new light on a question that has intrigued many scholars, novelists, journalists, and travel writers. Namely, to what extent have patterns from Shanghai’s celebrated and notorious jazz age past reemerged in the contemporary era, as the protean city has become once again a hub for flows into China of foreign ideas, fashions, and lifestyles. Drawing on fiction, archival documents, interviews, and personal observations, they provide a vivid account of nocturnal life in two eras. They also demonstrate how much can be learned about continuity and change in a cosmopolitan metropolis by zeroing in on how residents of different nationalities disport themselves in dance halls, discos, clubs, and bars.”(Jeffrey Wasserstrom, author of Global Shanghai and China in the 21st Century)

About the Author/作者介绍： James Farrer是东京Sophia大学社会学和国际研究教授，著有《Opening Up: Youth Sex Culture and Market Reform in Shanghai》，该书同样由芝加哥大学出版社出版。Andrew David Field著有《Shanghai’s Dancing World: Cabaret Culture and Urban Politics, 1919–1954》以及《Mu Shiying: China’s Lost Modernist》。

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.

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