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Shanghai and nightlife
is closely linked.
In the 1930's countless opium and gambling dens, brothels
and sex bars gave a vibrant atmosphere in the night.
In 1949 the Communists took over
and tried to establish law and order. Slums had to
disappear, the junkies had to learn to life without the
drugs. The life of many became somehow dull.
But nothing last forever -in particular
communists-, Shanghai
nightlife today is more attractive than ever. Mr.
Deng Xiao Ping
made it possible when he implemented in 1992 the new
economic reforms.
Countless restaurants, bars and crossover
populate the different quarters. Chinese, Thai, Mexican,
French, Italian, Spanish and many other food is offered in
partly quite expensive setting.
All kind of mouth
watering holes try to give you a break and it's not only
water you can get. Everything you can imagine to make you
happy is sold here.
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Only two things are strange, most of
the people in the nightclubs and restaurants cool the red wine and drink the cognac with ice
cubes and water....grrrr....what a sacrilege.
Here is a
shanghai nightclubs guide.
If you stay in
one of the bigger hotels with a night
club you can be sure a companion waits for
you, if you like, but also for sure its pure
money business, whatever is been told and
done and this is not negotiable once the
price has been fixed.

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Shanghai
massage parlors target Japanese expatriates
After midnight
at a building in central Shanghai that is a
shopping mall by day, a Japanese-language
poster in the elevator invites men up to Big
West Ocean club on the seventh floor.
Upon entering the club, a string of saunas
with tropical garden decor and corridors
lined with
private rooms,
the receptionist suggests a
full-body massage for 680 yuan
(about $85), more than 10 times the going
price of foot massages and cosmetic
services.
This top price buys ''anything you want,''
the receptionist says. Workers inside the
private rooms say the price includes sex and
that local authorities do not care.
About half the customers are Japanese,
the rest are local Chinese or
Westerners and all look after sexy
Chinese Girls.Big West Ocean is one of an
uncalculated number of recently
established Shanghai
massage parlors geared toward Japanese
people, about 40,000 of whom live in
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Although no one knows the number of massage
parlors catering to Japanese, legal or
otherwise, people familiar with Shanghai's
nightlife unanimously say they exist.
Some tell stories about masseuses starting
from the feet and working their way up,
raising the price as they go. Some offer
prices so high, from 500 yuan to 900 yuan,
that customers can be sure they will get
more than a back rub, which usually costs 50
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Some send
Chinese girl masseuses to customers' homes,
while others ask customers as soon as they
arrive whether they want sex.
''You're not under any pressure, but it's
generally a pretty frank question,'' said a
Shanghai magazine editor who was asked once.
''I was in a place the other day, and they
asked me 'do you want the full service?'''
''A very high number (of massage parlors) do
extras,'' he said.
Despite China's ban on prostitution and
occasional crackdowns, in cities throughout
the country entertainment venues from
neighborhood karaoke bars to
neighborhood karaoke bars to five-star
hotels offer under-the-table services to
male clients.
But the Shanghai
massage parlors stand
out in the sex
service scene
because they target
and live off a group
of expatriates.
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'You get a lot of married but single
Japanese people in Shanghai,'' said a
foreign-born lawyer who has lived in
Shanghai seven years.
''More than in any other city in China you
find that (prostitution) is more targeted
toward Japanese people,'' he said.
Shanghai's massage scene attracts Japanese
expatriates because the prices are lower
than those in Japan and the service is just
as professional, a staff member of the local
Japan External Trade Organization said.
He said that the massages, including a
light-touch, oil-free set called ''Japanese
style,'' can soothe overworked businessmen.
The Japanese-language entertainment magazine
''My City'' runs ads from 18 massage
parlors. Half want men only or charge more
than 500 yuan for service. An editor at the
magazine
editor said
it was likely some of the parlors offered
illegal services but did not know how many. Shanghai lets the parlors operate because
they keep the sexual services quiet or, in
some
cases,
because they
are run by
government
departments,
the lawyer
said.
Massage parlor employees normally decline to
discuss specific services by phone, saying
they do not know exactly what they are or
suggesting an in-person visit for an
introduction.
They welcome Japanese clients with quiet
cleanliness, Japanese-style furnishings and
Japanese-language service.
''The Japanese work hard, they get tired and
there's a lot of work stress,'' said a staff
member surnamed Zhang with the 24-hour
Beautiful Women Workshop massage parlor.
Zhang declined to describe her job but said
all services were legal.
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Bar's in Shanghai are plenty,
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Shanghai Bar
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a hot spot in
the moment is bar rouge Shanghai and cloud 9
bar in Shanghai, I don't know if they
are still on cloud 9 after they see the
bill. But what can we do, everyone has its
desire.
Nightclubs in
Shanghai are naturally to gain merit,
but not the Buddhist type of merit, it's the
ego type of merit, means what ? money,
money, money !! If you want to keep
your face up have a look at the face bar in
Shanghai, the glamour bar Shanghai is also
not bad, but what a little ice in the cognac
in the ice bar Shanghai ? Stretch it in
the long bar
Shanghai.
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If you are
fed up with the Manhattan bar Shanghai
-as if there is Manhattan in Shanghai- have
a look for other night life spots in
Shanghai and some real nightclubs in
Shanghai where they make it under the table
manually and oral, you don't trust me? its
standard procedure, trust me !! keep in
mind, when the nightlife heat is on and the
money winking everything is possible, here
and now !
Nightlife in
Shanghai was always the real thing in China,
forget the communists, they are in Beijing,
Shanghai is not Beijing or ?
Shanghai bars
are legend and Shanghai bar girls even beat
the Thai Bar girls in terms of how fast
the money of the client is extracted.
Shanghai china nightlife and Shanghai night
clubs have reached the climax of pulling
clients money, they even beat Hong Kong's
Club Volvo where the
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mama san pull money in
the 20 minute tact, reminds me to Johann
Straus, the Vienna Waltz and the three
quarter tact, in Chinese and Shanghai
Nightlife it's the 20 minute tact, what a
capitalistic adventure ?
Shanghai
night life in real Shanghai nightclubs
can still be a great experience but be careful with
Shanghai nightlife girls since
the times runs fast in Shanghais
tunnel bar, very dark, and other
milking establishments |
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Shanghai
nightlife and Shanghai bars takes on many
forms. Shanghai is one of China's top
china nightlife destinations and as such
there is a great range of nightspots in
Shanghai. Although Shanghai nightlife is not
on the same level as
Bangkok, it
wont mean you won't be able to find
somewhere and someone to have fun. Shanghai
clubs, Shanghai discos and Shanghai
entertainment are just depending on how big
is your wallet.
There is not so much on Shanghai gay
nightlife, if you want this direction
talk with the hotel bell man and he will
handle this with the taxi driver to bring
you to the right Shanghai night club, don't
be shy.
Shanghai
nightlife is very lively in the big
international hotels. If you like it
more simple just walk down
Shanghai's Nanjing
Road after 9 pm and
listen to the lady whisperers.
You might get a lot of fun or maybe not,
its a matter of money like everywhere in
China, money rules and nothing else.
Plenty of Shanghai girls are so beautiful
and also very materialistic minded.
There are countless bar girls and sex , but
its usually nice, so what ?
Nightlife in Shanghai is very
colorful, beside of the
above mentioned nightlife scene
are other nightlife things to do
in Shanghai.
What about to
listen to a concert of the
Shanghai Philharmonic Society,
maybe having a look for the
Shanghai Acrobatic Troup or the
Shanghai Yueju Opera Group.
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There are dace halls in
Shanghai, discotheques and bars
full with pretty girls, many of
the entertainment venues have
life music with singers and
bands. At Shanghai many
international cultural and art
festivals are celebrated. |
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"Nightlife"
bas reemerged in China and Shanghai since the "opening and
reform policies" of 1978.
Genres of contemporary Chinese
Shanghai nightlife include bars, dance clubs, karaoke clubs and
saunas, all of which have been influenced by transnational
flows of investments, ideas and people.
Nightlife is an
important space for Chinese people and the study of sexual subcultures in
Chinese cities. Nightlife is thus an area in which we can
study the transnational processes of cultural change in
China, while examining the possibilities of individual
agency, resistance and creativity within these organizing
structures.
Why study Chinese Shanghai nightlife?
We might begin with the question of why Shanghai and Chinese nightlife has been
studied so little in the past. One reason might be
that in Shanghai and China, as well in many other societies, nightlife is
not seen as serious. Indeed, in everyday discourse,
nightlife is dismissed as "play" as opposed to the serious
business of everyday life--issues such as work and family
that also constitute the serious business of social science.
In anthropologist Victor Turner's terminology, nightlife is
a region of "liminoid" activity, counterpoised to the
daylight worlds of work and family.
The idea of play as
opposed to workaday life is captured by the word
wan in
Mandarin, a term used by many Chinese to
describe going out at night, as well as the
social and sexual relations undertaken by people
in Shanghai and Chinese nightlife spaces. As elsewhere,
Shanghai nightlife is
a space in which people form temporary social
ties that they may not even acknowledge in
daytime, and where people engage in illicit or
subterranean forms of play they usually hide
from daylight eyes. These nightlife include dancing,
flirting, provocative dressing, drunkenness and
drug taking, temporary sexual alliances and
prostitution. By studying Shanghai nightlife we find forms of
sociability that are not seen by day or
explainable simply by referring to daytime
structures. For example, my research on dance
and nightclubs in Shanghai in the 1990s points out how
people used the space of the dancehall and dance
itself to explore and express sexual themes that
were off-limits in other social spaces. In other
words, nightlife "play" can be productive in
terms of new social relations and cultural
expressions, partly related to global flows of
ideas and people. (2) It may also be disruptive
to social boundaries and hierarchies.
Much of
the research on rock music culture in China
points to its rebellious messages and the
disruptive nature of rock performance and
audience participation that create spaces for
alternative expressions of identity, including
political aspirations.' In this issue, Komlosy's
account of rock music in 1990s Yunnan describes
the creative and disruptive qualities of
nightlife cultural production that can at times
blur social boundaries, such as those between
national and ethnic minority.
Conversely, it is possible that by accepting the
"alibi" of Shanghai nightlife as trivial we are
missing the role of nightlife in reproducing
larger social relationships of power and
inequality. Anne Allison's ethnography of
hostess clubs in Japan describes an ideological
construction of sexual "play" (asobi)
in which men use women hostesses as commercial
props in masculine rituals of sexual banter and
flirtation ostensibly located outside the
workday world, but ultimately serving to
reinforce men's ties to companies and the
gendering of corporate work and family life.
In this issue, both Tamara Perkins' study of a
rural dance hall hostess and Zheng's ethnography
of a hostess club illustrate the ways in which
"play" can reinforce forms of social inequality.
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The second common dimension that runs through
these ethnographies of Shanghai and Chinese nightlife,
therefore, is issues of power and social
inequality. As recent studies have shown,
consumption, including leisure consumption, is a
central means for expressing both social
solidarity and social power in China. Nightlife in contemporary
Shanghai and China is associated with spending
money--sometimes large amounts--in ways that
build ties but also establish status. Even so,
as Zheng and Perkins' articles in this issue
well illustrate, nightlife spaces provide
opportunities for subaltern figures, such as
migrant women, to improve their social and
cultural status through relatively high earnings
as well as provide exposure to foreign people
and urban and transnational culture. Nightlife
therefore features a paradoxical mixture of both
subordination (as performed within the space of
the club) and social mobility for hundreds of
thousands of migrant workers who occupy these
jobs.
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The tension between
what Georg Simmel calls the "democratic ethos"
of play and the inequality that actually
characterizes nightlife spaces in China is also
a tension that runs through these ethnographic
narratives. Indeed it is also a tension
reflected in the subjective perspectives of the
researchers themselves. Some were obviously more
in a position to have fun in the field than
others. The gendering of customer roles in
hostess clubs, for example, almost certainly
excluded women researchers from full
participation in the enjoyment of male-oriented
sexualized play. For example, Zheng was exposed
to some of the same forms of harassment that
female hostesses were also exposed to. Their
status as Caucasian "foreigners" may have given
Field and Komlosy more ability to distance
themselves from, and also to have enjoyed the
nightlife spaces that they investigated. In
studying nightlife, it is necessary to modulate
perspectives to account both for the fun,
pleasure and play that enliven these spaces as
well as the structures of inequality that create
positions of power within the social space. (7)
Studies of nightlife generally, and studies of
Chinese society both benefit from these
perspectives. Shanghai
nightclubs guide, Shanghai massage parlors,
china model girls, bars nightlife.
Shanghai nightlife shows itself to be a
particularly fruitful space in which to account
for how people use elements of
"play"--sociability, music, dance and
sensuality--to both build and contest power
relations. These studies of nightlife in China
point out that the western perception of
nightlife as a site of rebellion and
anti-structure might need to be modified to
account for the ways in which nightlife can
reproduce forms of inequality. On the other
hand, western accounts of nightlife point out
that studies of Chinese consumer society need to
take into account the forms of subversive play
and creative rebellion that individuals engage
in within larger structures of power and
inequality.
Commercial Chinese and Shanghai nightlife of the type discussed here
was banned by the Communist authorities during
the 1950s, and practices such as partnered
dancing were deemed to be forms of bourgeois
decadence. Nightlife thus recommenced anew in
the 1980s though not ad novum. All the forms of
Shanghai and Chinese nightlife discussed in this issue have their
roots in transnational flows of cultural forms
as well as in China's earlier development of
nightlife in the Republican era. It is not
possible to discuss all of these transnational
ties and historical legacies here, but it is
important to trace the forms and backgrounds of
some of the more popular forms of nightlife in
contemporary China.
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