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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2010

Frederick Wakeman Jr.
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Abstract

Shanghai has often been called the Paris of the Orient. This is only half true. Shanghai has all the vices of Paris and more but boasts of none of its cultural influences. The municipal orchestra is uncertain of its future, and the removal of the city library to its new premises has only shattered our hopes for better reading facilities. The Royal Asiatic Society has been denied all support from the Council for the maintenance of its library, which is the only center for research in this metropolis. It is therefore no wonder that men and women, old or young, poor or rich, turn their minds to mischief and lowly pursuits of pleasure, and the laxity of police regulations has aggravated the situation.

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Coping with Shanghai: Means to Survival and Success in the Early Twentieth Century—A Symposium
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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 54 , Issue 1 , February 1995 , pp. 19 - 42
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995

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