{"product_id":"shanghai-modern-9780674805514","title":"Shanghai Modern","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLeo Ou-fan Lee gives us a wide-angle view of Shanghai culture in the making. He shows us the architecture and urban spaces in which the new commercial culture flourished, then guides us through the publishing and filmmaking industries that nurtured a whole generation of artists and established a bold new style in urban life known as \u003ci\u003emodeng\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLee is at his strongest in discussing the inter-textuality of the various works he discusses in this section of the book, showing their relationship to both the European and Chinese literary traditions… Lee’s focus on republican-era Shanghai is a reminder of the renewed capacities of China’s largest city as a producer of the discourse of modernity in the post-Mao era. -- Antonia Finnane * Left History *\u003cbr\u003eThe special flavor of prewar Shanghai emerges from these pages. \u003ci\u003eShanghai Modern\u003c\/i\u003e is immensely rich in theoretical insights, and they emerge out of the dense, living portrait of old Shanghai, with its literary circles, dance-halls, movie theatres, façades, and streets. Lee makes you see how modern consciousness only exists in the circulation of forms, images, and ideas. The process is laid out before us in this rich and subtle description of the key epoch in the life of this tragic metropolis. -- Charles Taylor, McGill University\u003cbr\u003eThis is the definitive study of the making of modern Shanghai. Leo Lee has remapped Shanghai’s cultural geography, marking out the intricate relations between city and coloniality in the 1930s. Admirably combining historical rigor with literary sensibility, it adumbrates an alternative style of cultural criticism for the new century. -- David Wang, Columbia University\u003cbr\u003eThis is cultural history from inside out and from ground up. Lee reads the semiotics of Shanghai modernism with a stunning sensibility that evokes a cosmopolitan past when city streets were scenes of poetry rather than protests and when urban experience redefined the meaning of femininity. A major statement towards a new cultural history of modern China. -- Wen-hsin Yeh, University of California, Berkeley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface     PART I: The Background of Urban Culture   1. Remapping Shanghai    2. The Construction of Modernity in Print Culture   3. The Urban Milieu of Shanghai Cinema   4. Textual Transactions: Discovering Literary Modernism through Books and Journals     PART II: The Modern Literary Imagination: Writers and Texts   5. The Erotic, the Fantastic, and the Uncanny: Shi Zhecun's Experimental Stories    6. Face, Body, and the City: The Fiction of Liu Na'ou and Mu Shiying    7. Decadent and Dandy: Shao Xunmei and Ye Lingfeng    8. Eileen Chang: Romances in a Fallen City     III. Reflections   9. Shanghai Cosmopolitanism    10. Epilogue: A Tale of Two Cities     Notes    Glossary    Index","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359095390551,"sku":"9780674805514","price":32.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780674805514.jpg?v=1754123566","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/shanghai-modern-9780674805514","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}