Entertainment and Gender in China: Women's "Changes"

In the first half of the twentieth century, Shanghai became a center of a variety of entertainment. In this city, women took to the stage and appeared on screen, and “female entertainment” that appealed to the masses began to flourish. This phenomenon gradually spread to Japan. Through the lenses of different forms of entertainment such as movies, wireless and wired radio, newspapers, magazines, drama, dance, sports, travel, and so on, we can clearly observe the diverse roles women played in entertainment. This book, with a multi-faced perspective and materials in multiple languages, delves deeply into the content of entertainment. It is not only a meaningful exploration of Chinese studies but also a reconstruction of research on traditional mass entertainment.

【About the Author】

Keiko Ohama (Dean and Professor, Faculty of Global Communication, Kobe Gakuin University)
SUGAWARA, Yoshino (Professor, Faculty of Letters, Kansai University)
ZHAO Yi (Professor, School of Economics/ Graduate School of Language, Communication, and Culture, Kwansei Gakuin University)
Sachiko EGAMI (Professor Emerita, Ferris University Faculty of Global and Intercultural Studies)
Sudo Mizuyo (Associate Professor, Faculty of International Relations, Kyoto Sangyo University)
Masako Yokoyama (Professor, the Course in History and Geography, the Dept. of Humanity and Culture, Shigakukan University)
HOSHINO, Yukiyo (Professor, Graduate School of Humanities, Nagoya University)
SUSA Tae (Lecturer, Osaka University)
Fumi Nakayama (Professor, Faculty of Humanities and Sciences, Kobe Gakuin University)
Feng Chen (Part-time lecturer, Kwansei Gakuin University and Kobe Gakuin University)
Yu Chien-ming (Adjunct Research Fellow, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica)
Sugimoto Fumiko (Adjunct Lecturer,Ritsumeikan University)
ISHIKAWA Teruko (Professor, Faculty of Comparative Culture, Otsuma Women's University)