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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Des Forges, Alexander Townsend, 1970- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, ©2007.
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.