Cinema & Urban Culture in Shanghai, 1922-1943

List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Note on romanization; List of contributors; 1. Introduction: cinema and urban culture in republican Shanghai Yingjin Zhang; Part I. Screening Romance: Teahouse, Cinema, Spectator: 2. Teahouse, shadowplay, bricolage: laborer's love and the question of early Chinese cinema Zhen Zhang; 3. The Romance of the Western Chamber and the classical subject film in 1920s Shanghai Kristine Harris; 4. The urban Milieu of Shanghai cinema, 1930-40: some explorations of film audience, film culture, and narrative conventions Leo Ou-fan Lee; Part II. Imaging Sexuality: Cabaret Girl, Movie Star, Prostitute: 5. Selling souls in sin city: Shanghai singing and dancing hostesses in print, film, and politics, 1920-49 Andrew D. Field; 6. The good, the bad and the beautiful: movie actress and public discourse in Shanghai, 1920s-1930s Michael G. Chang; 7. Prostitution and urban imagination: negotiating the public and the private in Chinese films of the 1930s Yingjin Zhang; Part III. Constructing identity: Nationalism, Metropolitanism: 8. Constructing a new national culture: film censorship and the issues of Cantonese dialect, superstition, and sex in the Nanjing decade Zhiwei Xiao; 9. Metropolitan sounds: music in Chinese films of the 1930s Sue Tuohy; 10. 'Her traces are found everywhere': Shanghai, Li Xianglan, and the 'Greater East Asia film sphere' Shelley Stephenson; Filmography; Notes; Selected bibliography; Character list; Index.