Shanghai modern : the flowering of a new urban culture in China, 1930-1945 /
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
1999.
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Table of 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.