DOCSLIB.ORG

Lifeshanghai

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Lifeshanghai CHINA DAILY | HONG KONG EDITION Friday, July 30, 2021 | 17 LIFE SHANGHAI hang Yuan, a community of According to Ge Yin, a staff mem- hundreds of shikumen (a ber with the publicity department of style featuring Western and Jing’an district, there are more than Chinese elements) houses 200 such houses in Zhang Yuan, inZ downtown Shanghai’s Jing’an which was home to a tightknit com- district, was recently reopened to munity of more than 1,000 families the public after its last residents Restoring charm until 2019, when the first group of were relocated late last year. residents moved out. All families An exhibition titled, 100 Years of received compensation for the relo- Zhang Yuan: Urban Renewal of cation. Jing’an District, was launched in An urban renewal project is set to infuse life into old homes, At the exhibition, one video instal- the compound on July 6 to com- Zhang Kun reports in Shanghai. lation provides a glimpse of the lives memorate the site’s historical value. of people residing in this crowded “We want to bring the stories to neighborhood. The video shows how the public and let people know Western boxers to prove to the inter- people would pick vegetables, dry about Zhang Yuan, and show how national community that Chinese If you go their laundry, and play board games the Party and the State have done were courageous fighters. Peking with neighbors in the common out- everything possible to improve peo- Opera maestro Mei Lanfang also Zhang Yuan, 99 Taixing Road, door area because there was simply ple’s quality of life,” says Shi Yunlun, made his debut performance at a Jing’an district, Shanghai not enough space indoors. president of the Jing’an Real Estate private event there. 9:30 am-4:30 pm, Monday-Satur- In recent years, filmmakers have Group, the State-owned enterprise Stories like these are what the new day, July 1-Sept 30. Visitors can been traveling to Zhang Yuan to responsible for the conservation exhibition endeavors to share with make appointments via Jing’an re-create scenes from the 1980s and and restoration of Zhang Yuan. the public. The exhibition begins Zhangyuan WeChat account. The ’90s. The set of a movie scene shot in “Zhang Yuan is the first urban with photographs that depict the green health QR code has to be the compound has also been re-cre- renewal project in Shanghai to early beginnings of Zhang Yuan, shown to gain entry. ated for the exhibition. In this scene, implement a protective expropria- which was named after its founding actors gathered in front of a tiny tion plan,” Shi says. owner Zhang Shuhe (1850-1919), a black-and-white television in a back “For decades, the shikumen hous- merchant from Wuxi in Jiangsu mented in the Oct 17 issue of the lane and watched as China’s women es were packed and the facilities province. Zhang had bought a piece North China Herald. volleyball team won their first world overused. In order to conserve the of farmland in Shanghai from a Brit- In the late 1900s, Arcadia Hall championships in the 1980s. heritage of Shanghai, the city decid- on named Francis Groom before became a popular venue for public As several families used to share a ed to relocate all the residents in building a garden home for his speeches. It is believed that revolu- shikumen house, they often had no 2018 and protect the buildings.” mother. This home was named Wei- tionaries such as Sun Yat-sen, Huang more than one room for the whole According to the district’s plans chun Yuan, or Chang Su-ho’s Gar- Xing and Cai Yuanpei gave lectures family. for the compound, the houses will den, and was located in the here during public rallies against the “In some extreme cases, a small be restored and refurbished, under- international settlement during Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) govern- room was home to a family of three ground spaces will be constructed, colonial times. ment. Thousands of people were generations,” Ge says. and a commercial compound over Zhang opened the garden to the reported to have had their pigtails To address this situation, some 150,000 square meters will be intro- public after his mother’s death in cut off at these rallies — a symbolic families created space by building a duced. Maintaining the cultural 1885 and later built a Western-style act of their determination to break second level within their rooms. heritage and characteristics of the mansion called Arcadia Hall, a place away from the Qing governance. In Today, the ladders that these people shikumen houses will be the top pri- where people could enjoy a the 1910s, more entertainment used to climb to the upper level can ority of this project, Shi says. bird’s-eye view of Shanghai. He also parks, such as the Great World still be found in many of the rooms. Located just off Nanjing Road expanded the garden space to more Amusement Center, were estab- Through the decades, authorities West at the corner of Taixing Road than 4 hectares. lished in the city. from Jing’an district have made con- and Wujiang Road, Zhang Yuan, or With the introduction of enter- Zhang Yuan closed down in 1918 tinuous efforts to improve the living Zhang’s Garden, is widely known as tainment options such as a roller- after a period of decline and its land conditions. The plumbing, water Shanghai’s largest, best-preserved coaster, circus performances and was eventually sold when Zhang and gas supply were renovated so and most diverse shikumen com- pleasure boats, Zhang Yuan quickly Shuhe died a year later. The new that each family could have their pound. became a famous public space and owner divided the land into 28 own kitchen space. Small bath- Before it became a residential one of the few private gardens that blocks and resold them to different rooms were also built in some of the compound, the location was dubbed were open to the public in Shanghai. developers to build shikumen resi- homes. But many of the residents the “No 1 public garden of Shang- Its other amenities included a dance dences. still had to resort to archaic means hai”. It was the place where the first hall, a theater for Chinese opera, a Shikumen — the term literally of human waste disposal — more electric lamp in China was lit, the photography studio, a tea house and means “stone-framed gate” — in than 500 households in Zhang Yuan first bicycle race in China took place, restaurants. Top: A view of the shikumen houses in Zhang Yuan in Shanghai’s Shanghai first appeared in the still had to rely on chamber pots and where the country’s first out- In 1890, a Western performer Jing’an district. Middle: A movie scene featuring a back lane of Zhang 1860s. After 1949, most of these resi- until 2018. door photo booth was opened. It took off from Zhang Yuan in a hot- Yuan in the 1980s when neighbors watched TV as China’s women dential buildings became State- was also the place where kung fu air balloon before parachuting to volleyball team won their first world championships. Above: Interior owned, and the city designated up to Contact the writer at master Huo Yuanjia challenged the ground. This event was docu- of a residential building in Zhang Yuan. PHOTOS BY GAO ERQIANG / CHINA DAILY 10 households to each building. [email protected] Season of music and sightseeing at cultural institution By ZHANG KUN there have not been so many con- kick off and go on for six months on Bund, the Oriental Pearl TV Tower certs of Chinese music, so we decid- the fourth floor of the Shanghai in Shanghai and conference events A program that combines a con- ed to create an on-site edition of the Concert Hall. It will be an immersive all over the country. cert production by the Shanghai Chinese concert. show of Chinese music, illustrating As the Shanghai Concert Hall is a Chinese Orchestra with digital “We hope audiences, be they the rich colors and diverse charac- protected building, the installation visual art will be launched at the local or tourists from China or teristics of Chinese instruments and of visual projection equipment will Shanghai Concert Hall in October. abroad, will feel the warmth and music. not damage it, Zhang says. It will consist of a daily package of diversity of the city. It’s a live-mu- Motion Magic, a leading digital Six series of concerts and events day-time tours of the venue and sic experience that can’t be entertainment company in Shang- will be held there from August to evening presentations of Chinese replaced by anything you see on hai, will create a 3D projection on December. Aside from the in-house music and outdoor digital art the internet.” the western facade of the concert concert of the orchestra, 10 other shows. The concert will be presented in hall. classical concerts will also take The concert by the Shanghai Chi- 100 shows at the Shanghai Concert “Audiences will enjoy the 8-min- place, featuring leading artists nese Orchestra will be an updated Hall, and the first round of perform- ute 3D visual show projected on the such as pianist Chen Sa and violin- version of the production New Ori- ances will take place from Oct 20 to wall from the lawn to the west of the ist Ning Feng, and young rising ental Chinese Music Scene, which Nov 11.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Uva-DARE (Digital Academic Repository)
    UvA-DARE (Digital Academic Repository) Red Sonic Trajectories - Popular Music and Youth in China de Kloet, J. Publication date 2001 Link to publication Citation for published version (APA): de Kloet, J. (2001). Red Sonic Trajectories - Popular Music and Youth in China. General rights It is not permitted to download or to forward/distribute the text or part of it without the consent of the author(s) and/or copyright holder(s), other than for strictly personal, individual use, unless the work is under an open content license (like Creative Commons). Disclaimer/Complaints regulations If you believe that digital publication of certain material infringes any of your rights or (privacy) interests, please let the Library know, stating your reasons. In case of a legitimate complaint, the Library will make the material inaccessible and/or remove it from the website. Please Ask the Library: https://uba.uva.nl/en/contact, or a letter to: Library of the University of Amsterdam, Secretariat, Singel 425, 1012 WP Amsterdam, The Netherlands. You will be contacted as soon as possible. UvA-DARE is a service provided by the library of the University of Amsterdam (https://dare.uva.nl) Download date:08 Oct 2021 L4Trif iÏLK m BEGINNINGS 0 ne warm summer night in 1991, I was sitting in my apartment on the 11th floor of a gray, rather depressive building on the outskirts of Amsterdam, when a documentary on Chinese rock music came on the TV. I was struck by the provocative poses of Cui Jian, who blindfolded himself with a red scarf - stunned by the images of the crowds attending his performance, images that were juxtaposed with accounts of the student protests of June 1989; and puzzled, as I, a rather distant observer, always imagined China to be a totalitarian regime with little room for dissident voices.
    [Show full text]
  • UNIVERSITY of CALIFORNIA Los Angeles the How and Why of Urban Preservation: Protecting Historic Neighborhoods in China a Disser
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Los Angeles The How and Why of Urban Preservation: Protecting Historic Neighborhoods in China A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in Urban Planning by Jonathan Stanhope Bell 2014 © Copyright by Jonathan Stanhope Bell 2014 ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION The How and Why of Preservation: Protecting Historic Neighborhoods in China by Jonathan Stanhope Bell Doctor of Philosophy in Urban Planning University of California, Los Angeles, 2014 Professor Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Chair China’s urban landscape has changed rapidly since political and economic reforms were first adopted at the end of the 1970s. Redevelopment of historic city centers that characterized this change has been rampant and resulted in the loss of significant historic resources. Despite these losses, substantial historic neighborhoods survive and even thrive with some degree of integrity. This dissertation identifies the multiple social, political, and economic factors that contribute to the protection and preservation of these neighborhoods by examining neighborhoods in the cities of Beijing and Pingyao as case studies. One focus of the study is capturing the perspective of residential communities on the value of their neighborhoods and their capacity and willingness to become involved in preservation decision-making. The findings indicate the presence of a complex interplay of public and private interests overlaid by changing policy and economic limitations that are creating new opportunities for public involvement. Although the Pingyao case study represents a largely intact historic city that is also a World Heritage Site, the local ii focus on tourism has disenfranchised residents in order to focus on the perceived needs of tourists.
    [Show full text]
  • 1 Demolition and Reconstruction in Chinese Urban Cinema in The
    Demolition and Reconstruction in Chinese Urban Cinema in the 1990s Francesca Kaufman University of Edinburgh In the closing decade of the Twentieth Century China experienced a boom in urban construction. From the post-Mao period of the late 1970s economic reforms became increasingly important within centralised planning. Focused initially on transforming the productive capacity of the countryside, in the early 1980s attention shifted to revitalising China’s urban areas with the aim of promoting business growth and attracting foreign investment. What followed was an unprecedented wave of large-scale urbanisation sweeping through the cities of China to rebuild them as global centres1. Changes occurred in the architectural landscape and associated social dynamics of the urban environment on a rapid scale. Vernacular housing compounds (for example the hutongs in Beijing) which had stood for centuries were cleared and rebuilt as skyscrapers, shopping centres and motorway ring roads. Communities were forcibly relocated to multiple locations to make way for hotels and business centres funded by overseas investment. In response to Deng Xiaoping’s declaration in 1992 1 Zhang Zhen considers that the intensity of the urban upheavals caused by the new economic policies can only be compared to the modernisation of the treaty ports in the first years of the Twentieth Century: Zhang Zhen, ‘Bearing Witness: Chinese urban cinema in the era of “transformation” (Zhuanxing)’, in Zhang Zhen (ed.) The Urban Generation: Chinese cinema and society at the turn of the Twenty-First Century (Durham NC, 2007), p. 2. 1 that “socialism can also practise market economy”, a complete overhaul of China’s infrastructure took place, best exemplified by the ubiquitous presence of bulldozers and construction sites.
    [Show full text]
  • Lifeshanghai
    CHINA DAILY | HONG KONG EDITION Friday, September 18, 2020 | 17 LIFE SHANGHAI Left: A night scene of the newly opened eastern section of Nanjing Road. JEAN YUAN / FOR CHINA DAILY Above: The eastern section of Nanjing Road reopens after a nine-month renovation project. GAO ERQIANG / CHINA DAILY A new look for a new era Nanjing Road, Shanghai’s most famous shopping street, gets an injection of vitality and glamour, Xing Yi reports. n 1928, American missionary hai Nanjing Road, which was pub- called The Central, featuring stores trian street brought a large pop-up and educator Francis Lister lished in August, attended the grand including Nike, New Balance and theme park by Bilibili, a popular vid- Hawks Pott wrote: “At night opening of the extension of the Skechers. eo-sharing website that features they were illuminated by thou- pedestrian street, which also In 2018, boutique hotel Edition animation, comics and games. Isands of electric lights, and helped marked the start of this year’s opened in the art-deco former head- Ye Yifan, general manager of the make the upper part of Nanking Shanghai Tourism Festival that runs quarters of Shanghai Power Compa- company, says it wants to attract Road a ‘great white way’ … They through the end of this month. ny. more young people to the street, and mark both the gradual process of the “A new era of Nanjing Road starts In June, the biggest flagship store make them feel that Nanjing Road is modernization of China and the from tonight,” she said on the open- of Huawei replaced the clothes “most Shanghai, most international growing prosperity of Shanghai.” ing day.
    [Show full text]
  • Shanghai, China Overview Introduction
    Shanghai, China Overview Introduction The name Shanghai still conjures images of romance, mystery and adventure, but for decades it was an austere backwater. After the success of Mao Zedong's communist revolution in 1949, the authorities clamped down hard on Shanghai, castigating China's second city for its prewar status as a playground of gangsters and colonial adventurers. And so it was. In its heyday, the 1920s and '30s, cosmopolitan Shanghai was a dynamic melting pot for people, ideas and money from all over the planet. Business boomed, fortunes were made, and everything seemed possible. It was a time of breakneck industrial progress, swaggering confidence and smoky jazz venues. Thanks to economic reforms implemented in the 1980s by Deng Xiaoping, Shanghai's commercial potential has reemerged and is flourishing again. Stand today on the historic Bund and look across the Huangpu River. The soaring 1,614-ft/492-m Shanghai World Financial Center tower looms over the ambitious skyline of the Pudong financial district. Alongside it are other key landmarks: the glittering, 88- story Jinmao Building; the rocket-shaped Oriental Pearl TV Tower; and the Shanghai Stock Exchange. The 128-story Shanghai Tower is the tallest building in China (and, after the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the second-tallest in the world). Glass-and-steel skyscrapers reach for the clouds, Mercedes sedans cruise the neon-lit streets, luxury- brand boutiques stock all the stylish trappings available in New York, and the restaurant, bar and clubbing scene pulsates with an energy all its own. Perhaps more than any other city in Asia, Shanghai has the confidence and sheer determination to forge a glittering future as one of the world's most important commercial centers.
    [Show full text]
  • The Curious Case of Chinese Film Censorship: an Analysis of The
    THE CURIOUS CASE OF CHINESE FILM CENSORSHIP: AN ANALYSIS OF THE FILM ADMINISTRATION REGULATIONS by SHUO XU A THESIS Presented to the School of Journalism and Communication and the Graduate School of the University of Oregon in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts December 2017 THESIS APPROVAL PAGE Student: Shuo Xu Title: The Curious Case of Chinese Film Censorship: An Analysis of Film Administration Regulations This thesis has been accepted and approved in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Arts degree in the School of Journalism and Communication by: Gabriela Martínez Chairperson Chris Chávez Member Daniel Steinhart Member and Sara D. Hodges Interim Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate School Original approval signatures are on file with the University of Oregon Graduate School. Degree awarded December 2017 ii © 2017 Shuo Xu iii THESIS ABSTRACT Shuo Xu Master of Arts School of Journalism and Communication December 2017 Title: The Curious Case of Chinese Film Censorship: An Analysis of Film Administration Regulations The commercialization and global transformation of the Chinese film industry demonstrates that this industry has been experiencing drastic changes within the new social and economic environment of China in which film has become a commodity generating high revenues. However, the Chinese government still exerts control over the industry which is perceived as an ideological tool. They believe that the films display and contain beliefs and values of certain social groups as well as external constraints of politics, economy, culture, and ideology. This study will look at how such films are banned by the Chinese film censorship system through analyzing their essential cinematic elements, including narrative, filming, editing, sound, color, and sponsor and publisher.
    [Show full text]
  • The Flâneur in Shanghai: Moviegoing and Spectatorship in the Late Qing and Early Republican Era
    1 The Flâneur in Shanghai: Moviegoing and Spectatorship in the Late Qing and Early Republican Era SUGAWARA Yoshino 上海の遊歩者 ― 清末民初の映画鑑賞について 菅 原 慶 乃 本稿は、上海における映画受容を、都市と娯楽文化の近代化の総体的文脈の中に位置 づけたうえで、（1）遊歩や観劇文化の近代化の文脈における映画受容と、（2）知的な文 明、あるいは近代教育の工具としての映画受容の二つについて明らかにするものである。 上海において、映画は観劇文化を代表とする伝統的娯楽文化と強い親和性を持ち、伝統 的娯楽文化の近代化の過程においてその文脈の内に包摂されていった。数々の日記資料 が明らかにするところによれば、映画鑑賞とは近代的娯楽の中核を成す遊歩という行為を 構成する諸々の遊興行為の一要素であった。映画は遊歩に従属する行為であり、遊歩の 過程で人々が目にする様々な都市の風景の一断片であった。遊歩に依拠した映画鑑賞態 度は、1910年代には遊楽場という遊興施設を誕生させ、1920年代には国産映画の美学へ 強い影響を及ぼすこととなった。他方、映画は娯楽文化とは全く異なる文脈においても受 容された。西洋式の学校や公共施設、宗教団体の会所などで上映される映画や幻灯は、 西洋（あるいは近代）がもたらす「啓蒙的」で「知的」なメディアとしても受容されていた。 このような空間における映画上映は、「健全」なものとして市井の商業上映とは全く異な るヘテロトピア―映画の教育的ミリュー―を創造した。1920年代の国産映画が社会教化 を強く志向したのは、このような映画受容に直接のルーツを求めることができるのである。 2 Preface The development of digital technology and archival efforts to preserve and publish early movies through various media and opportunities has dramatically improved the ac- cessibility of those unseen movies. Although many movies are to be repaired and re- searched yet, many early works are no longer antiques stored in the darkness of film ar- chives, unseen for decades. Yet, some important questions about movie exhibition and spectatorship in the initial movie years remain unanswered or unexamined; they encapsu- late the attitude of movie spectators, the social and cultural milieus of the movie exhibition venues, and the recognition and acceptance of movies as a new media by the early audi- ence. Among the early studies on movie spectatorship and audiences, Miriam Hansen’s Babel and Babylon should be marked as one of the most unique and insightful due to its methodology, which utilizes both aesthetic and historical methods in analyzing early spec- tatorship in the United States. One of Hansen’s achievements in this work is her theoriza- tion of the different stages of early film spectatorship, based on her analysis of a profound number of early movies.
    [Show full text]
  • Printable Itinerary for SSO, Taiko, Chamber Chorale
    2008-1-17 China Concert Tour Itinerary for STANFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (SSO) STANFORD CHAMBER CHORALE (SCC) STANFORD TAIKO ENSEMBLE (TAIKO) June 16-July 5, 2008 Day 1: Monday, June 16, 2008 San Francisco/Shanghai 9: 45am: Meet at Dink doc for buses to SFO 13:30 PM: Departure from San Francisco on UA 857, bound for Shanghai Day 2: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 Shanghai Afternoon: Arrive in Shanghai Pudong Airport at 17:25 and transfer to Hotel Grand Hyatt by buses by maglev train Evening: Check in to the Hotel and have dinner Day 3: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 Shanghai/Hangzhou Morning: 08:00 Breakfast at Hotel (all the breakfasts are provided from 6:30am to 9:30am daily in the ho tels where we stay) SSO: 09:00-1100 Free at leisure. 11:00 Check out Noon: 11:45 Lunch Afternoon: 13:30 Drive to Hangzhou by bus 15:30 Arrive in Zhejiang University SCC &Taiko 10:00 Check out 10:30/13:00 Drive to Hangzhou 13:00/14:00 Lunch 14:00/16:00 rehearsal at Zhe Jiang University SSO, SCC& Taiko 16:00 Exchange Program 17:30 Dinner 18:30 Jointed concert at Zheda Auditorium 20:00 Check in to Zhejiang Hotel 1 2008-1-17 Day 4 : Thursday, June 19, 2008 Hangzhou Morning: 08:00 Breakfast at Hotel 09:00-10:30 Rehearsal at Hotel 10:30-11:30 Meet with mayor of Hangzhou 11:30-12:30 Visit the West Lake and the Inner West Lake Noon: 12:30-14:00 Lunch at Lou Wai Lou Restaurant Afternoon: 14:00-15:30 Visit Six Harmony Pagoda 15:30 Drive to Zhejiang Grand Theater 16:00-18:30 Rehearsal in Zhejiang Grand Theater 18:30-19:00 Tea time Evening: 19:30 Concert in the Opera Hall of the Zhejiang Grand Theatre.
    [Show full text]
  • S40410-021-00136-Z.Pdf
    Roche Cárcel City Territ Archit (2021) 8:7 https://doi.org/10.1186/s40410-021-00136-z RESEARCH ARTICLE Open Access The spatialization of time and history in the skyscrapers of the twenty-frst century in Shanghai Juan Antonio Roche Cárcel* Abstract This article aims to fnd out to what extent the skyscrapers erected in the late twentieth and early twenty-frst cen- turies, in Shanghai, follow the modern program promoted by the State and the city and how they play an essential role in the construction of the temporary discourse that this modernization entails. In this sense, it describes how the city seeks modernization and in what concrete way it designs a modern temporal discourse. The work fnds out what type of temporal narrative expresses the concentration of these skyscrapers on the two banks of the Huangpu, that of the Bund and that of the Pudong, and fnally, it analyzes the seven most representative and sig- nifcant skyscrapers built in the city in recent years, in order to reveal whether they opt for tradition or modernity, globalization or the local. The work concludes that the past, present and future of Shanghai have been minimized, that its history has been shortened, that it is a liminal site, as its most outstanding skyscrapers, built on the edge of the river and on the border between past and future. For this reason, the author defends that Shanghai, by defn- ing globalization, by being among the most active cities in the construction of skyscrapers, by building more than New York and by building increasingly technologically advanced tall towers, has the possibility to devise a peculiar Chinese modernity, or even deconstruct or give a substantial boost to the general concept of Western modernity.
    [Show full text]
  • Download Here
    ISABEL SUN CHAO AND CLAIRE CHAO REMEMBERING SHANGHAI A Memoir of Socialites, Scholars and Scoundrels PRAISE FOR REMEMBERING SHANGHAI “Highly enjoyable . an engaging and entertaining saga.” —Fionnuala McHugh, writer, South China Morning Post “Absolutely gorgeous—so beautifully done.” —Martin Alexander, editor in chief, the Asia Literary Review “Mesmerizing stories . magnificent language.” —Betty Peh-T’i Wei, PhD, author, Old Shanghai “The authors’ writing is masterful.” —Nicholas von Sternberg, cinematographer “Unforgettable . a unique point of view.” —Hugues Martin, writer, shanghailander.net “Absorbing—an amazing family history.” —Nelly Fung, author, Beneath the Banyan Tree “Engaging characters, richly detailed descriptions and exquisite illustrations.” —Debra Lee Baldwin, photojournalist and author “The facts are so dramatic they read like fiction.” —Heather Diamond, author, American Aloha 1968 2016 Isabel Sun Chao and Claire Chao, Hong Kong To those who preceded us . and those who will follow — Claire Chao (daughter) — Isabel Sun Chao (mother) ISABEL SUN CHAO AND CLAIRE CHAO REMEMBERING SHANGHAI A Memoir of Socialites, Scholars and Scoundrels A magnificent illustration of Nanjing Road in the 1930s, with Wing On and Sincere department stores at the left and the right of the street. Road Road ld ld SU SU d fie fie d ZH ZH a a O O ss ss U U o 1 Je Je o C C R 2 R R R r Je Je r E E u s s u E E o s s ISABEL’SISABEL’S o fie fie K K d d d d m JESSFIELD JESSFIELDPARK PARK m a a l l a a y d d y o o o o d d e R R e R R R R a a S S d d SHANGHAISHANGHAI
    [Show full text]
  • Shanghai Symphony Orchestra in ‘C’ Major (1879 to 2010)
    This item was submitted to Loughborough University as a PhD thesis by the author and is made available in the Institutional Repository (https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/) under the following Creative Commons Licence conditions. For the full text of this licence, please go to: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ Shanghai Symphony Orchestra in ‘C’ Major (1879 to 2010) By Mengyu Luo A Doctoral thesis Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements For the award of Doctor of Philosophy Loughborough University 15th March © by Mengyu Luo (2013) 1 Abstract Shanghai Symphony Orchestra is a fascinating institution. It was first founded in 1879 under the name of ‘Shanghai Public Band’ and was later, in 1907, developed into an orchestra with 33 members under the baton of German conductor Rudolf Buck. Since Mario Paci—an Italian pianist—became its conductor in 1919, the Orchestra developed swiftly and was crowned ‘the best in the Far East’ 远东第一 by a Japanese musician Tanabe Hisao 田边尚雄 in 1923. At that time, Shanghai was semi-colonized by the International Settlement and the French Concession controlled by the Shanghai Municipal Council and the French Council respectively. They were both exempt from local Chinese authority. The Orchestra was an affiliated organization of the former: the Shanghai Municipal Council. When the Chinese Communist Party took over mainland China in 1949, the Orchestra underwent dramatic transformations. It was applied as a political propaganda tool performing music by composers from the socialist camp and adapting folk Chinese songs to Western classical instruments in order to serve the masses.
    [Show full text]
  • June 2019 Home & Relocation Guide Issue
    WOMEN OF CHINA WOMEN June 2019 PRICE: RMB¥10.00 US$10 N 《中国妇女》 Beijing’s essential international family resource resource family international essential Beijing’s 国际标准刊号：ISSN 1000-9388 国内统一刊号：CN 11-1704/C June 2019 June WOMEN OF CHINA English Monthly Editorial Consultant 编辑顾问 Program 项目 《中 国 妇 女》英 文 月 刊 ROBERT MILLER（Canada） ZHANG GUANFANG 张冠芳 罗 伯 特·米 勒（ 加 拿 大） Sponsored and administrated by Layout 设计 All-China Women's Federation Deputy Director of Reporting Department FANG HAIBING 方海兵 中华全国妇女联合会主管/主办 信息采集部（记者部）副主任 Published by LI WENJIE 李文杰 ACWF Internet Information and Legal Adviser 法律顾问 Reporters 记者 Communication Center (Women's Foreign HUANG XIANYONG 黄显勇 ZHANG JIAMIN 张佳敏 Language Publications of China) YE SHAN 叶珊 全国妇联网络信息传播中心（中国妇女外文期刊社） FAN WENJUN 樊文军 International Distribution 国外发行 Publishing Date: June 15, 2019 China International Book Trading Corporation 本 期 出 版 时 间 ：2 0 1 9 年 6 月 1 5 日 中国国际图书贸易总公司 Director of Website Department 网络部主任 ZHU HONG 朱鸿 Deputy Director of Website Department Address 本刊地址 网络部副主任 Advisers 顾问 WOMEN OF CHINA English Monthly PENG PEIYUN 彭 云 CHENG XINA 成熙娜 《中 国 妇 女》英 文 月刊 Former Vice-Chairperson of the NPC Standing 15 Jianguomennei Dajie, Dongcheng District, Committee 全国人大常委会前副委员长 Director of New Media Department Beijing 100730, China GU XIULIAN 顾秀莲 新媒体部主任 中国北京东城区建国门内大街15号 Former Vice-Chairperson of the NPC Standing HUANG JUAN 黄娟 邮编：100730 Committee 全国人大常委会前副委员长 Deputy Director of New Media Department Tel电话/Fax传真：(86)10-85112105 新媒体部副主任 E-mail 电子邮箱：[email protected] Director General 主 任·社 长 ZHANG YUAN 张媛 Website 网址 http://www.womenofchina.cn ZHANG HUI 张慧 Director of Marketing Department Printing 印刷 Deputy Director General & Deputy Editor-in-Chief 战略推广部主任 Toppan Leefung Changcheng Printing (Beijing) Co., 副 主 任·副 总 编 辑·副 社 长 CHEN XIAO 陈潇 Ltd.
    [Show full text]