The Vices of Modernity.

I'm doing research for my soon-to-be-due paper on Shanghai cinema/ modernism, and I came across this illustration, and thought I'ld share it:

Comic illustrating the temptations crowding Shanghainese gaoyang ("virtuous lamb"/ high Confucian officials).
Counter-clockwise: Flesh, Dance, Travel Guides (?), Bathhouses, Theater.
From Xiao Jianqing, Manhua Shanghai, 1935, No. 8.

This pictorial relic-evidence proves that time doesn't change everything. It's been like, 72 years. As if men today aren't tempted by the same vices, albeit in a modern form!