Shanghai Social Panorama

Author: Shi Fukang
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Publish Date: 2000-01-01
Features: This book selects several excerpts from "Old Tales of South City," "Glimpses of the Foreign Quarter," "Urban Fragments," "Municipal," "Folk Customs," "Worldly Realities," "Shadows of the Dark," "Songbei Entertainment," "Social Welfare," and "Famous Cases in Shanghai" to showcase the people of Shanghai in history, the city of Shanghai, and the history of Shanghai to readers. You can experience the struggles and personalities of various strata of old Shanghai from figures such as police officers, foreign refugees, real estate brokers, sub-tenants, beggars, street vendors, dancers, prostitutes, philanthropists, and Shanghai tycoons, feeling their sorrow, vulgarity, cleverness, and serenity. You can also learn about the secular ecology and human environment of old Shanghai from teahouses, alleyway residences, marriage and funeral rituals, concessions, dog racing and gambling, entertainment venues, the Court of Mixed Jurisdiction, and street killings.