Shanghai's nightlife, from the mid-nineteenth century until the victory of the Communist Party in 1949, was dominated by the world of prostitution. Henriot portrays the Chinese sex trade, from the sophisticated life of the courtesan to the common life of street prostitution. He examines the extent to which these worlds were integral to Chinese social life, commercial trends, an...(展开全部)

The issue of death has loomed large in Chinese cities in the modern era. Throughout the Republican period, Shanghai swallowed up lives by the thousands. Exposed bodies strewn around in public spaces were a threat to social order as well as to public health. In a place where every group had its own beliefs and set of death and funeral practices, how did they adapt to a modern, u...(展开全部)

艾华（Harriet Evans），英国伦敦大学东方与非洲研究院（SOAS）博士，英国威斯特敏斯特（Westminster）大学中国研究中心教授。

艾华（Harriet Evans），英国伦敦大学东方与非洲研究院（SOAS）博士，英国威斯特敏斯特（Westminster）大学中国研究中心教授。

Shanghai is a visual history that tells the story of modern China as witnessed by this romantic city. The end of the Opium Wars in 1842 effected a dramatic transformation, turning a sleepy backwater into a bustling treaty port. Over the intervening 160 years, Shanghai has been shaped by outside forces - foreign concessions, Japanese invasions, the arrival of the Communists an...(展开全部)

Alain Corbin depicts prostitution in nineteenth-century France not as a vice, crime, or disease, but as a well-organized business. Corbin reveals how the brothel served the sex industry in the same way that the factory served manufacturing: it provided an institution for the efficient and profitable sale of services.

Gender and sexuality have been neglected topics in the history of Chinese civilization, despite the fact that there is a massive amount of historical evidence on the subject. China's late imperial government was arguably more concerned about gender and sexuality among its subjects than any other pre-modern state. How did these and other late imperial legacies shape twentieth-ce...(展开全部)

贺萧（Gail B. Hershatter），女，美国斯坦福大学获博士学位，现任美国加利福尼亚大学圣克鲁斯校区历史系教授、文化研究中心主任。她长期从事文化史、劳工史、妇女史、性史和女性主义理论的研究。她的著作丰富，有《天津工人：1900-1949》、与霍尼格合著的《美国女学者眼中的中国女性》，与吉尔马丁等合编的《中国的产生：妇女、文化和国家》（哈佛大学出版社，1994年），与霍尼格等合编的《重新勘测中国》（斯坦福大学出版社，1996年），与霍尼格等合编的《中国妇女研究指南》（加州伯克利大学东亚研究所，1999年）等书。现正在研究中国西北农村的妇女问题，主题也是历史、记忆与社会性别身份问题。

This pioneering work examines prostitution in Shanghai from the late nineteenth century to the present. Drawn mostly from the daughters and wives of the working poor and declassé elites, prostitutes in Shanghai were near the bottom of class and gender hierarchies. Yet they were central figures in Shanghai urban life, entering the historical record whenever others wanted to appr...(展开全部)

Shanghai is a visual history that tells the story of modern China as witnessed by this romantic city. The end of the Opium Wars in 1842 effected a dramatic transformation, turning a sleepy backwater into a bustling treaty port. Over the intervening 160 years, Shanghai has been shaped by outside forces - foreign concessions, Japanese invasions, the arrival of the Communists an...(展开全部)