[AAA] Shanghai's Dancing World MIT Talk 2/21 7:30pm!!

[Brian Huang]

*“Nightlife in Shanghai: From the Jazz Age 1920s to the Current Age of the
Super-Wealthy”*


7:30PM, WEDS FEB 21, HUNTINGTON HALL (10-250)

In the 1920s, Shanghai became known worldwide for its nightlife as the city
learned to dance to the rhythms of the American jazz age. The war years of
the 1940s and the Communist Revolution of the 1950s put an end to the
city’s dance halls and cabarets, but the reform era of the 1980s saw the
revival of dancing in the city. By the 1990s, more sophisticated discos,
bars, and lounges arose in the city as it internationalized. More recently,
a caste of super-wealthy Chinese known as *fu er dai* (“wealthy second
generation”) has taken over the most exclusive club spaces in the city,
spending thousands of dollars per night, and signifying the growing gap
between wealth and poverty in China.



*Speaker*:

*Andrew Field *(B.A., Asian Studies, Dartmouth College; Ph.D., East Asian
Languages and Cultures, Columbia University) has taught at universities in
America, Australia, China, and Korea, and is currently Associate Dean of
Undergraduate Programs at Duke Kunshan University in China. He is the
author of *Shanghai’s Dancing World: Cabaret Culture and Urban Politics *(2010)
and *Mu Shiying: China’s Lost Modernist* (2014), and co-author with James
Farrer of *Shanghai Nightscapes: A Nocturnal Biography of a Global City*
 (2015).
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