Resources
Dong, Stella. Shanghai: The Rise and Fall of a Decadent City. HarperCollins, 2000.
Field, Andrew David. Shanghai’s Dancing World: Cabaret Culture and Urban Politics, 1919–1954. Chinese University Press, 2010.
Chen, Szu-Wei. “The Music Industry and Popular Song in 1930s and 1940s Shanghai: A Historical and Stylistic Analysis.” PhD diss., University of Stirling, 2007.
Cheng, Ya-Hui. The Evolution of Chinese Popular Music: Modernization and Globalization, 1927 to the Present. Routledge, 2023.
Clayton, Buck, and Nancy M. Elliott. Buck Clayton’s Jazz World. Continuum, 1995.
Marlow, Eugene. Jazz in China: From Dance Hall Music to Individual Freedom of Expression. University of Mississippi Press, 2018.
Montgomery, Laszlo. “The Seven Great Singing Stars of Shanghai (Part 2).” The China History Podcast, August 2019. Podcast, Length in 28:30. https://open.spotify.com/episode/2ieCUeLy9UPymjcnLcKDqV?si=2114ae6058724b93
Roevens, Iris. “History of Chinese Popular Music (1920–1960).” Psyche Music, December 1, 2009. https://archive.ph/20130913115706/http://www.psychemusic.org/shanghai- hongkong.html.
Sergeant, Harriet. Shanghai: Collision Point of Cultures 1918/1939. Crown Publishers, 1990.
Yamaguchi, Yoshiko and Fujiwara Sakuya. Fragant Orchid: The Story of My Early Life. University of Hawai‘i Press, 2015.
Jones, Andrew F. Yellow Music: Media Culture and Colonial Modernity in the Chinese Jazz Age. Duke University Press, 2001.
Lau, Frederick. Music in China: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture. Oxford University Press, 2008.
Lee, Leo Ou-Fan. Shanghai Modern: The Flowering of a New Urban Culture in China, 1930– 1945. Harvard University Press, 1999.
Ma, Jean. Sounding the Modern Woman: The Songstress in Chinese Cinema. Duke University Press, 2015.
Smith, Norman. Intoxicating Manchuria: Alcohol, Opium, and Culture in China’s Northeast. UBC Press, 2012.
Steen, Andreas. “Tradition, Politics, and Meaning in 20th Century China’s Popular Music. Zhou Xuan: ‘When Will the Gentleman Come Back Again?’” Chime 14/15 (2000): 124–153.
Tuohy, Sue. “Metropolitan Sounds: Music in Chinese Films of the 1930s.” In Cinema and Urban Culture in Shanghai, 1922–1943, edited by Yingjin Zhang, 200–221. Stanford University Press, 1999.
Zhang, Qian. “Yellow Music Criticism During China’s Anti-Rightist Campaign,” from Sound Alignments, edited by Michael K. Bourdaghs, Paola Iovene, and Kaley Mason, 231–248. Duke University Press, 2021.
Fu, Poshek. Between Shanghai and Hong Kong: The Politics of Chinese Cinemas. Stanford University Press, 2003.
Fu, Poshek. “Resistance in Collaboration: Chinese Cinema in Occupied Shanghai, 1941–1945.” In Chinese Collaboration with Japan, 1932–1945: The Limits of Accommodation edited by David P. Barrett and Larry N. Shuyu, 180–200. Stanford University Press, 2001.
Fu, Poshek. “The Ambiguity of Entertainment: Chinese Cinema in Japanese-Occupied Shanghai, 1941 to 1945.” Cinema Journal 37, no. 1 (1997): 66–84.
Ho, Wai-Chung. Popular Music, Cultural Politics and Music Education in China. Routledge, 2017.
Hong, Sandra. “The Songbirds of China.” Glass Magazine, June 7, 2013. https://theglassmagazine.com/yao-lee-poon-sow-keng-interview/