In 2004 I made these short films discussing the history of the Paramount Ballroom, Shanghai’s finest ballroom in the 1930s. Since the 1950s the ballroom has undergone many renovations and been retooled for many different uses (movie theater,... ...full story at Shanghai Journal
from Shanghai Journal on Sun, May 04 2008
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| 04 May 08 |
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Paramount Ballroom Shanghai (2004) »
YouTube video Ballroom dancers at today's Paramount (the main floor shown here has since been changed to a disco) |
| 06 Oct 09 |
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CNNGo's 50 reasons why Shanghai is the greatest » Shanghaiist CNN's new web-based travel experiment, CNN Go has collected 50 reasons why Shanghai is the greatest city in the world. Yeah, we too like brunch and Mao memorabilia and outdoor ballroom dancing (though we're not sure how unique they are to Shanghai,... |
| 13 Aug 08 |
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Ballroom dancing in the dark » Danwei Lydia Wallace will be posting nightly photos shot after sunset during the Olympics. Dancers on the south shore of Houhai Lake. Many older married couples are experienced dancers, stepping through stately waltzes to a time signature they keep in their... |
| 28 May 07 |
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Strange Cities: A Multimedia Site on Old Shanghai » Shanghai Journal Three years ago, while researching the history of jazz music in Shanghai, I discovered that one of Shanghai's most famous bandleaders from the 1930s, a White Russian named Serge Ermoll, had migrated with his family to Sydney. It turns out that his... |
| 25 Nov 08 |
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Photos of Beijing in the 1930s and '40s » Danwei 1930s Beijing lady by Hedda Morrison One of the delights of the English language China blog scene is In the Footsteps of Joseph Rock, a photoblog about western Yunnan and eastern Tibet, where the botanist Joseph Rock travelled extensively in the 1920s.... |
| 21 Jan 08 |
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Milk & Fashion at the Paramount » Shanghaiist By Julien Bertrand Last Thursday evening at the Paramount was the premiere of new feature film Milk & Fashion, touted as the first film to feature "non-Asian actors speaking Chinese in lead roles of a feature film for the first time ever". The crowd... |
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