Shanghai modern : the flowering of a new urban culture in China, 1930-1945
Title:
Shanghai modern : the flowering of a new urban culture in China, 1930-1945
Author:
Lee, Leo Ou-fan.
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Publication Information:
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999.
Physical Description:
xvii, 409 pages, 26 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
The background of urban culture. Remapping Shanghai ; The construction of modernity in print culture ; The urban milieu of Shanghai cinema ; Textual transactions: discovering literary modernism through books and journals -- The modern literary imagination: writers and texts. The erotic, the fantastic, and the uncanny: Shi Zhecun's experimental stories ; Face, body and the city: the fiction of Liu Na'ou and Mu Shiying ; Decadent and dandy: Shao Xunmei and Ye Lingfeng ; Eileen Chang: romances in a fallen city -- Reflections. Shanghai cosmopolitanism ; Epilogue: a tale of two cities.
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ISBN:
9780674805507
9780674805514
Format :
Book
