摘要
As somebody who goes to bed early, I found this book on Shanghai nightlife eye opening. When I first visited Shanghai in the mid-1980s, there was not much of a nightlife. Thanks to the earlier work of one of the co-authors of this book, the historian Andrew Field, 1 did know that Shanghai once had a vibrant jazz scene down through the 1950s. And after reading co-author and sociologist James Farrer＇s previous book, Opening Up： Youth Sex Culture and Market Reform in Shanghal; I understood a bit more about contemporary nightlife. Everything else about the nightlife, however, remained inaccessible, though I long suspected that some topics of interest to academics are more visible at night.
As somebody who goes to bed early, I found this book on Shanghai nightlife eye opening. When I first visited Shanghai in the mid-1980s, there was not much of a nightlife. Thanks to the earlier work of one of the co-authors of this book, the historian Andrew Field, 1 did know that Shanghai once had a vibrant jazz scene down through the 1950s. And after reading co-author and sociologist James Farrer＇s previous book, Opening Up： Youth Sex Culture and Market Reform in Shanghal; I understood a bit more about contemporary nightlife. Everything else about the nightlife, however, remained inaccessible, though I long suspected that some topics of interest to academics are more visible at night.
