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To browse Academia. Skip to main content. Log In Sign Up. Download Free PDF. Shanghai Bars: patchwork globalization and flexible cosmopolitanism in reform-era urban leisure spaces. James Farrer.
Download PDF. A short summary of this paper. Chinese Sociology and Anthropology, vol. Sharpe, Inc. All rights reserved. DOI 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 strati- fication 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. High society? The scene that appeared in my eyes was the lurid world of red lights and green liquor I once saw in a movie.
A strange sense of curiosity welled up in my heart. There are two intertwined narratives here. The first is the localization of bar culture, or the acceptance of the bar by local Shanghainese as a conventional spot for social activities including dating, business deals, game playing, and even family outings.
The second related story is the social stratification of James Farrer is an associate professor of sociology in the Faculty of Liberal Arts at Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan; e-mail: j-farrer sophia. Class cultures are as much cultures of consump- tion as cultures of production Davis The Irish saloons in the United States were local family-owned businesses identified with immigrant working-class communities Rosenzweig Even as this example points out, the bar is a product of cultural global- ization linked to transnational flows of people and cultural practices.