The .1920-1940's Cafe Study

After Shanghai opened the port, the western diet culture input Shanghai through each way, the opening of five ports foreign settlement became bridgehead of coffee introduction ,afterward presented the independent business cafe. At first ,the cafe mainly adapted foreigners'leisure and meeting to set up, afterward, it gradually became the Shanghai partial resident's life style. Its development reflected the modern Shanghai region culture characteristic and the common custom human sentiment hundred condition.As the early western imported product, the cafe manifested the foreign characteristic in the construction decoration and the diet; In management and operation, the cafe carried on western idea, and simultaneously adapted the Shanghai characteristic and became a scenery of Shanghai.The cafe industry management mainly came from the trade association and government's management.The cafe industry formed own trade organization--Western Cuisine Coffee Hanse in the modern development, the trade association played the vital role in standarding cafe business, coordinating cafe's contradiction and promoting cafe. Moreover, the cafe industry was also integrated under government's management.The government carried out government's policies into the cafe through the management of cafe price, the business hour and the recreational activities, then affected resident's daily life. The government had some contradictions with the cafe operator,in the process of strengthening the cafe management. The Trade association played an important role in coordinating both relations. On the one hand,the trade association had certain independence and carried on the multiple negotiation with the government for the member benefit,on the other hand, the trade association was restrained the government and became the government policies'performer.Along with the cafe development,it gradually became Shanghai resident's multi-dimensional activity public space. It once became the stage of ostentative expense and status marking, it was not only a place which the resident rest, recreat,met and exchanged, but also an ideal choice where the resident discussed business and exchanged commodity.numerous public and secret politics plans and activities also chose the cafe as the stage. In brief, the cafe in Shanghai had undertaken the complex social function in the modern Shanghai city life.