城市娱乐功能是城市生活的基本功能之一,二十世纪二、三十年代的上海发展成为中国城市娱乐的中心。进入20世纪初期,经过开埠以后50余年来初步发展和磨合,上海城市娱乐开始酝酿着新的突破,以戏院、游乐场、电影院和舞厅为代表的四大城市娱乐场所和娱乐活动。书中通过大量翔实的史料、诸多名家的叙述,生动具体的记载了从上海1843年至今,西方文化 Urban entertainment is one of the basic functions of urban life. Shanghai in the 1920s and 1930s became the center of urban entertainment in China. In the early twentieth century, after more than 50 years of initial development and running-in, Shanghai’s urban entertainment began to brew new breakthroughs in the four major urban entertainment venues and entertainment venues represented by theaters, playgrounds, cinemas and ballrooms. The book through a large number of informative historical materials, many famous narrator, vividly recorded from the Shanghai 1843 so far, the Western culture