{"product_id":"popular-magazines-and-fiction-in-shanghai-19141925-9781498544788","title":"Popular Magazines and Fiction in Shanghai","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book explores the rise of Shanghai-based popular magazines produced by the Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies School in early twentieth-century China. It examines the national, gender, family, and social imaginaries constructed and negotiated through a complex network of relationships between popular writers, magazine editors, and their intended readers, which were represented in various forms of popular narratives, including patriotic stories, war\/military stories, family narratives, domestic fiction, utopian writings, and industrial-business stories. The author argues that the national imagination, social ideals, and the notions of ideal womanhood and the new family, were intrinsically linked and integral to the search for cultural identity of the emerging Chinese middle society and an expression of their collective sensibilities, experiences, and aspirations. This book suggests that the cultural imaginaries configurated in these magazine stories articulated a shared quest for mo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Abbreviations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1 Imagining the Nation: Patriotism in Popular Narratives\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2 Constructing the Ideal Womanhood: The Imaginary of the “Wise Mother and Good Wife”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3 Constructing the Domestic Sphere: The Imaginary of Ideal Families and Homes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4 Constructing the “Middle Society:” Urban Utopias and Industrial Fiction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEpilogue \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrequently Cited Chinese Periodicals\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Author \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040740245847,"sku":"9781498544788","price":96.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781498544788.jpg?v=1750947689","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/popular-magazines-and-fiction-in-shanghai-19141925-9781498544788","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}