The next year, ladies in Shanghai were wearing long qipao," said Professor Bian. "And qipao itself was the result of Western influences. It was worn like a dress, not a robe as it should have been.

People visit the 2025 Shanghai Book Fair in Shanghai, east China, Aug. 13, 2025. The book fair kicked off οn Wednesday and ...

In 2008 and 2012, she published two photo albums on the subject of Shanghai women, Shanghai Ladies and Haishang Mingyuan ( Debutantes in Shanghai ).

Shanghai Girls: Uncensored and Unsentimental is based on the firsthand account of Shanghai girl Lan Lan, who goes from being the girl next door to a successful entrepreneur living between New York ...

First, I’ve been collecting Shanghai advertising images from the Twenties, Thirties, and Forties for many years. The so-called Beautiful Girls, women who posed for commercial artists, were right ...

Hanbury-Tenision cautioned that Shanghai Girls was about a group of women who came of age during the 1990s. She suggested today's "Shanghai Girls" would most likely be found in poorer Chinese cities.

In 2003 and 2008, the city’s family-planning bureaucrats (the Shanghai Municipal Population and Family Planning Commission) asked 38,000 men and women aged 20-45 about how many children they wanted.

The Korean edition became an instant hit upon its July release, going through four reprints within a month. The Chinese ...

Painted posters of beautiful women were used to sell all manner of goods in 1920s China. Broadcaster Christina Wong asks if these are images of subservience or liberation. At the turn of the 20th ...