Shanghai Swings!
http://www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/printout/0,13675,501040927-699484,00.html
The long slumber is over, and Shanghai is grooving to an exuberant
global beat
BY HANNAH BEECH
When Alphonso Zhu sauntered into the Paramount ballroom—suit pressed,
hair smoothed back with Yardley's Brilliantine—the scion of one of
Shanghai's richest families would often be greeted with a welcome
fanfare from the band's trumpet section. One of the most eligible
bachelors in town in the 1930s, Zhu courted Chinese, European and
Eurasian girls with multilingual ease. In his spare time—and playboys
in swinging Shanghai had plenty of it—he started up a jazz band with
the sons of the Swedish consul general. The music stopped in 1949.
Under communism, Zhu's family home was confiscated, and he was
assigned a menial job. The Paramount, once the hottest joint in town,
became the Red Capital Theater, where workers were corralled to watch
films on the glories of socialism. Recently, though, a man whose life
has roller-coastered along with Shanghai stepped out for a most
remarkable event: the grand reopening of the Paramount, where sequined
Russian showgirls kicked up their heels and Chinese women swirled by
in slinky cheongsams. "This is the greatest city in the world," says
the 86-year-old Zhu, in his precise, courtly English. "And now, I
feel, it's only getting better."
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