Introduction: Setting the Scene

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations viii
4. Tables xi
5. Series Preface xii
6. Acknowledgments xv
7. Introduction: Setting the Scene 1
8. Act 1 Story and Structure 30
9. Act 2 Warlords, History, and the Democratic Dream 85
10. Act 3 Shanghai and Peking Blues: Fiction as Imagined History 103
11. Act 4 The Shadowplay of Attractions and Painted Faces 119
12. Act 5 Three-Women Fiction, Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies 148
13. Postscript 190
14. Credits 197
15. Glossary 200
16. Filmography 213
17. Bibliography 217