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This 6 page paper discusses the impact of the "Jazz Age" culture on the city and the changes it brought; the agents responsible for that change; and what happened to Shanghai nightlife as a result. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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of jazz music at that time, and the memories of the "old" Shanghai still linger. This paper discusses the impact of the "Jazz Age" culture on the city and the
changes it brought; the agents responsible for that change; and what happened to Shanghai nightlife as a result. Discussion One source characterizes the Shanghai of the 1920s as a "frontier,"
complete with the images that brings to mind (saloons, gunfights, dance hall girls and so on) (Atkins, 1999). "In the years between World Wars I and II, Shanghai was virtually
everyones frontier, the colonial playground for transients from over 20 nations" (Atkins, 1999, p. 5). [Emphasis in original] The people who lived in Shanghai at the time were dubbed
"Shanghai soujourners" by Frederic Wakeman, Jr. and Wen-hsin Yeh; they had loyalties that "fluctuated" between their native countries and "the announcement of a new identity as Shanghai ren (Shanghai people)"
(Atkins, 1999, p. 5). Shanghai at that time was a violent and unruly place; prostitution was a "mass industry" and though people of many different races were present, they did
not merge, though they might mingle in public (Atkins, 1999). One of the interesting phenomena of the time was the existence of a "distinct jazz community" in Shanghai (Atkins, 1999,
p. 6). This community was comprised of "a number of musicians, singers, stage and taxi dancers, and cabaret and dance hall proprietors of Japanese nationality" (Atkins, 1999, p. 6). They
were entrusted with the task of entertaining the Japanese who had settled in the Hongkew district of the city; this is the community Atkins refers to as a "frontier" (Atkins,
1999, p. 6). The so-called "jazz frontier" that Atkins describes is different from other frontiers: "it is a geographic zone of cultural interaction, but not between native and invading populations.
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