Shanghai Bars

Patchwork Globalization and Flexible Cosmopolitanism in Reform-Era Urban-Leisure Spaces

Bibliographic Data

ID6046243
AuthorsJ Farrer (0000-0002-9847-0347, Sophia University, corresponding author)
Year2009
Volume42
Issue2
Pages22-38
Publication date2009-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueChinese Sociology & Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0009-4625 • E-ISSN: 1558-1004
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.2753/csa0009-4625420201
OpenAlexW1980340779
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited13

During the thirty years of opening and reform the drinking bar (jiuba) has become part of the texture of urban Chinese life. The bar has been localized as a conventional setting for social activities including dating, business deals, game playing, and even family outings. The bar is also the site of a class stratification of leisure culture with local, national, and transnational dimensions. Shanghai bar cultures have developed into a patchwork of ethnically mixed and ethnically enclaved sites that allow for a type of flexible cosmopolitanism for those willing and able to negotiate these diverse spaces

Bar (unit) · Cosmopolitanism · Ethnic group · Ethnically diverse · Geography · Negotiation · Political science · Social science · Social stratification · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy

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