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Cinema and the Cosmopolitan City: Colonial Encounters in Shanghai, 1900-1930

Cinema and the Cosmopolitan City: Colonial Encounters in Shanghai, 1900-1930

He, Qiliang

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Series: China Understandings Today

Chinese HistoryFilm StudiesGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

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ISBN10: 0472058584
ISBN13: 9780472058587
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Pages: 280
Language: English

In early twentieth-century Shanghai, cinema was more than entertainment--it reshaped the city itself. As movie theaters appealed to city dwellers of all backgrounds, colonial authorities struggled to manage this new public space and introduced new safety rules, censorship, and anti-crime measures. Movie theaters unintentionally brought the unofficial way of racial segregation to an end. Moreover, imported films, though emblematic of Western modernity, paradoxically eroded the myth of Western civilizational superiority. These films revealed social ills in Euro-American societies, exposed Hollywood's racist depictions of Chinese people, and galvanized anti-imperialist and nationalist sentiments among local audiences.

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