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[quote=GUEST21249,392080]Of Shanghai women and their traitsBy Chen Weihua (China Daily)
Updated: 2009-09-25 08:27

To many Chinese men around the country, Shanghai women have remained a mystery that is both bewitching and confounding.

In countless movies and posters, the typical woman of Shanghai is seen to be dolling up in cheongsam, sipping coffee, playing mah-jong in the afternoon, holding a cigarette between her slender fingers and dancing her night away with ever changing partners in an elegant ballroom. Indeed, she reminds people of Eileen Chang, a writer who lived in Shanghai during the Japanese occupation and wrote about love and romance in those impossible and surreal times. One of her best known novels, Lust, Caution, was made into a movie by noted director Ang Lee in 2007.

Chang and the women in her novels have carved a deep impression in people's minds. They are seen to be smart, modern, stylish, elegant, carefree and meticulous, almost obsessive, about every detail of their dresses and accessories.

One signatory word to distinguish a Shanghai woman is dia, which refers to one who talks and acts in so overly gentlely that others can't resist being charmed or awed. It is often used to describe a woman who deliberately plays up her femininity to capture the hearts of the opposite sex.
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