Shanghai modern : the flowering of a new urban culture in China, 1930-1945 /

This text explores the golden age of Shanghai urban culture, a modernity which was once intrinsically Chinese and profoundly anomalous, blending new and indigenous ideas with those flooding into this 'treaty port' from the Western world.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lee, Leo Ou-fan
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Popular culture > China > Shanghai.
Culture populaire > Chine > Shanghai.
HISTORY / Asia / China
Civilization.
Economic history.
Manners and customs.
Popular culture.
Social conditions
Stadscultuur.
Shanghai (China) > Social life and customs.
China > Civilization > 1912-1949.
Shanghai (China) > Social conditions > 20th century.
Shanghai (China) > Economic conditions > 20th century.
Chine > Civilisation > 1912-1949.
China.
China > Shanghai.
Online Access:Texto completo
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.

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