Haipai

=Haipai= =Haipai ( 海派) ﻿is a style of painting and literature, distinct to Shanghai, which characterizes the city's art and culture from the pre-communist era. It became a derogatory term in the early 1900's, used by critics to contrast the tastes of "Jingpai," or Beijing style, with the bad tastes of Shanghai art merchants. Later, the term was used to describe any sort of art and literature, as well as the consumption of meaningless art. =

 Works Cited:  Movius, Lisa. "Rewriting Old Shanghai." Asian Wall Street Journal, May 16-18, 2003. < http://www.movius.us/articles/awsj-changhenge.html>.