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1、Page 194Map 22.Old Shanghai, ca. 1930s.Based on a map in William Crane Johnstone, Jr., The Shanghai Problem (1937).cuisines. If the same person were more interested in music than food, the choices would be almost as varied, with everything from the sounds of Western jazz to
2、those of several very different sorts of Chinese opera to any one of a number of mixed genres being offered up in theaters and nightclubs along the same route.Old Shanghai's Exceptionalism as a SymbolThe preceding sketch of material, social, and cultural anomalies gives some
3、 idea of the enormity of the problem facing anyone seeking to put in comparative context the complex and unusual urban center that stood to the west of the Huangpu, but the issues need to be magnified still further by taking into account Old Shanghai's special role as an obj
4、ect of representation and analysis. One needs to consider not just Old Shanghai's life as a historical city, which came into being in the aftermath of one international military conflagration (the Opium War) and disappeared during the course of another (World War II), but al
5、so its afterlife as an imagined and remembered place that continues to generate an enormous amount of often passionate commentary. It matters as well that this commentary has taken an unusually wide array of forms, being created by everyone from purveyors of popular culture
6、to academics, and that many contributors to this activity seem convinced that Old Shanghai is best represented as a veritable paradise on earth, a terrestrial equivalent to the netherworld, a spot where elements of heaven and hell coexisted in curious juxCopyright©2000.Unive
7、rsityofHawaiiPress.Allrightsreserved.Maynotbereproducedinanyformwithoutpermissionfromthepublisher,exceptfairusespermittedunderU.S.orapplicablecopyrightlaw.EBSCOPublishing:eBookCollection(EBSCOhost)-printedon2/14/20167:03PMviaWASHINGTONUNIVAN:39233;Esherick,Joseph.;Remakingth
8、eChineseCity:ModernityandNationalIdentity,1900-1950Account:s8997234Page 195
