To live in Shanghaiin the 1920s and early 1930s was to inhabit an era in which, as the title of Cole Porter’s famous musical put it, ‘Anything Goes’. This chaotic era, the humor, satire and irony of which was so brilliantly captured in the musical, gave rise to a distinctive style commonly found in China as well as Western countries at this time Art Deco. Similarly, issues such as the crash in the stock market, the beginning of the Depression, changes in banking, marriage, religion, personal beliefs, and loyalty to society and tradition, were just as urgent themes in rapidly modernizing Chinaas they were in America, and were particularly hotly discussed in Shanghai. Recently, scholarly attention has moved from politics to the material sphere of ordinary life, and from nationalism as an isolated phenomenon to its interaction with consumerism and personal interests. [download]
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