Licensing Leisure: The Chinese Nationalists' Attempt to Regulate Shanghai, 1927–49

Wakeman, Frederick

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“…Westerners used problems in policing and road work as excuses to expand the areas they controlled around Shanghai; Japanese and Russian forces threatened to seize more of Manchuria if modern public health measures were not instituted (and epidemics controlled before they threatened foreign interests); and Japan later threatened to seize areas near the mouth of the Yellow River (again, near existing concessions) if flood control was not improved. 126 Meanwhile, coastal steamships (after 1860) and railroads (after 1895) in which both the government and many officials (as private share-holders) had a strong financial interest, provided alternate ways of provisioning Beijing; giving them contracts to haul grain promised to kill two birds with one stone.…”

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Re-thinking the Late Imperial Chinese Economy: Development, Disaggregation and Decline, circa 1730–1930

Pomeranz¹

2000

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Re-thinking the Late Imperial Chinese Economy: Development, Disaggregation and Decline, circa 1730–1930

Pomeranz¹

2000

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“…Zhang (2003) also notes that the establishment of the Nationalist central government in Nanjing in 1927 interfered with the market-driven characteristic of Chinese film production, an enforced cultural shift that promoted nationalist ideology. The Nationalists' top-down endeavor to police private leisure ended up as an unsuccessful project due to little support from masses and immense corruption (Wakeman 1995)…”

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The Afterlives of An Chunggŭn in Republican China: From Sinocentric Appropriation to a Rupture in Nationalism

Han¹

2016

Cross-Currents

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This article examines Sino-Korean cultural relations in the 1920s and 1930s, focusing on representations of Korean anticolonial activist An Chunggŭn's assassination of Japanese prime minister Itō Hirobumi (1909). Two different junctures in particular are considered: the release of the film Patriotic Spirit by Chŏng Kitak in 1928 and the Wanbaoshan Incident in 1931. Patriotic Spirit, a transnational dramatization of An's story, was the first Chinese film directed by a Korean; the Wanbaoshan Incident was a violent conflict between Chinese and Koreans caused by the unofficial "discord-provoking policy" of the Japanese empire. The article tracks changes in Chinese responses to An's story before and after these two junctures, showing that Patriotic Spirit subtly communicated transnationalism while also catering to the Sinocentric taste of Chinese audiences. It also examines how Chinese print media in 1928 appropriated Patriotic Spirit for nationalist ends. Following the Wanbaoshan Incident, An's story resurfaced in China. Despite heightened anti-Korean sentiment in China at this time, An avoided Chinese condemnation because the Chinese unwittingly categorized him as Korean yet not Korean. Hence, while An's story became integrated into Chinese discourse, this study reveals, the sign of An Chunggŭn caused a rupture in the Han/non-Han divide embedded in Republican-era Chinese nationalism.

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“… 65 For the Nationalist Party's attitude, see Wakeman (1995). …”

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Building a ‘Lofty, Beloved People's Amusement Centre’: The socialist transformation of Shanghai's Great World (Dashijie) (1950–58)

Xiao¹,

2020

Mod. Asian Stud.

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Based on a detailed case study of the socialist transformation of the Shanghai Great World Amusement Centre (Dashijie), this article documents state-building efforts during the early years of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Between 1950 and 1958, the Communist regime incrementally transformed the power configuration within Dashijie, promoting dramatic changes in its personnel, institutional structures, drama performances, and physical space. Over the course of this process, Dashijie seemed to become a ‘loftier’ cultural organization in accordance with the aims of its transformation. This transfigured Dashijie, however, fell out of favour with the people of Shanghai. This multifaceted transformation process reflects considerable state capacities on the one hand and illustrates the complexity of state capacities—their unevenness and the limitations of a strong state—on the other. The complexity of state capacities thus shaped and was embedded in the process and outcome of this socialist cultural transformation. Since the Chinese state is once again making strenuous efforts at culture-building, an overview of cultural transformation in the early PRC era has important contemporary implications.

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Licensing Leisure: The Chinese Nationalists' Attempt to Regulate Shanghai, 1927–49

Cited by 18 publications

References 5 publications

Re-thinking the Late Imperial Chinese Economy: Development, Disaggregation and Decline, circa 1730–1930

Re-thinking the Late Imperial Chinese Economy: Development, Disaggregation and Decline, circa 1730–1930

The Afterlives of An Chunggŭn in Republican China: From Sinocentric Appropriation to a Rupture in Nationalism

Building a ‘Lofty, Beloved People's Amusement Centre’: The socialist transformation of Shanghai's Great World (Dashijie) (1950–58)

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