FST-3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Silent Film, Ruan Lingyu
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German and french: each of european powers that had a stake in china had a portion of the city of shanghai, debates in china around modernization, westernization about the. Anxieties of urban space: modernity was most visible in the city, with its new modern city social patterns that challenges old, traditional ways: e. g. : the new woman who could be glamorous like a model, or fallen like a street walking prostitutes, a. k. a. pheasant: military threat aggression from japan. The new woman cigarette girls ads, marked this change towards hyper commoditized commerce in ways that it hadn"t been traditionally speaking in china. New woman as kind being embodied in goddess the prostitute certain variety of prostitute: the streetwalker not same as previous representation in china. Acceptability has to do with brothels inside, cortisones, high class and relatively speaking kind of ok, traditional, not just for sex but instead companionship, dining, smoking opium, and sex.
