Mediasphere Shanghai : the aesthetics of cultural production /
For many in the west, "Shanghai" is the quintessence of East Asian modernity, whether imagined as glamorous and exciting, corrupt and impoverishing, or a complex synthesis of the good, the bad, and the ugly. How did "Shanghai" acquire this power? How did people across China and a...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawai'i Press,
©2007.
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Colección: | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Rhetorics of territory, mixture, and displacement
- 2. From street names to brand names : the grid of reference
- 3. Synchronized reading : installment aesthetics and the formation of the mediasphere
- 4. Desire industries : constant motion and endless narrative
- 5. Brokers, authors, "Shanghai people"
- 6. Marxists and modern girls : Shanghai fiction and the 1930s
- 7. Lineages of the contemporary and the nostalgic
- Epilogue : Shanghai 2000.