Courtesan Novels of Shanghai: The Nightmare of Modern Males

HU Jing

Jun. 2021

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HU Jing. Courtesan Novels of Shanghai: The Nightmare of Modern Males[J]. Journal of University of Science and Technology Beijing ( Social Sciences Edition), 2011, 27(3): 105-108,113.

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HU Jing. Courtesan Novels of Shanghai: The Nightmare of Modern Males[J]. Journal of University of Science and Technology Beijing ( Social Sciences Edition), 2011, 27(3): 105-108,113.

HU Jing. Courtesan Novels of Shanghai: The Nightmare of Modern Males[J]. Journal of University of Science and Technology Beijing ( Social Sciences Edition), 2011, 27(3): 105-108,113.

Citation:

HU Jing. Courtesan Novels of Shanghai: The Nightmare of Modern Males[J]. Journal of University of Science and Technology Beijing ( Social Sciences Edition), 2011, 27(3): 105-108,113.

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Courtesan Novels of Shanghai: The Nightmare of Modern Males

HU Jing

School of Humanities and Law, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China

Received Date: 2010-02-15
Available Online: 2021-06-26

Abstract

Abstract

Westernization of the modern Shanghai made prostitutes the group of people mostly influenced by urbanization and commercialization, and the group of people whose ideas changed most dramatically.Changes of the female characters broke the traditional romance of "superior men and inferior women" and "man being the talented one and woman being the beautiful one" in the classical courtesan novels.In the courtesan novels of Shanghai, prostitutes have become men's nightmare.
- courtesan novels of Shanghai,
- prostitutes,
- men's nightmare