Jiang, Jin, Dubious prosperity: Women and entertainment in wartime Shanghai (2009)

Title : Dubious prosperity: Women and entertainment in wartime Shanghai

Author(s) : Jiang, Jin

Year : 2009

Type : Journal article

Subject : History

Keywords : women;social;cultural;war;entertainment

Journal : Frontiers of History in China

Volume : 4

Number : 1

Start page : 124

End page : 148

Language:Name : English

Support : Print

URL :
http://www.springerlink.com.gate3.inist.fr/content/d54t1nj556838670/

Abstract : Wartime Shanghai (1937–1945) was a crucial period in women’s Yue opera history, during which the opera took roots in the city and was transformed into a modern art form. The opera established itself as a dominant presence in the city’s popular entertainment in the first half of the 1940s and gained national and international influence in the 1950s and 1960s with its masterpiece plays such as The butterfly lovers and Dream of the red chamber. The rise of women’s Yue opera in wartime Shanghai was more a ramification of long-term developments in urban migration, urban cultural transformation, and women’s integration into society that ran through the entire Republican even the early PRC periods. 战时上海 (1937–1945)是女子越剧历史上的一个关键时期, 女子越剧由此而在城市里成长起来并演变为一种现代艺术形式。1940 年代前半期, 它成为大众娱乐的主流, 并在1950 和1960 年代凭其经典剧目«梁祝»及«红楼梦»在国内外产生影响。女子越剧在战时上海的兴起, 更多的是都市移民、都市文化变革及女性在民国参与社会活动等现象长期发展的衍生物。