Shanghai's elderly waltz back to the past at lunchtime dance halls


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Wang Li (left), 65, dancing with a partner at the Hai Shang Jiu Meng Dance Hall in the Changning district of Shanghai. Photo: AFP

A group of retirees cheered under disco lights as 60-year-old Xu Li leapt into her partner's arms, her legs spread akimbo in perfect splits.

It was just a regular Wednesday at one of Shanghai's many lunchtime dance clubs, a phenomenon born of the city's deeply rooted love of ballroom culture from its jazz-age heyday.

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