UID:
almafu_9959231590502883
Format:
1 online resource (xiii, 427 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-520-93528-4
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1-59734-725-6
Series Statement:
Berkeley series in interdisciplinary studies of China ; 1
Content:
Shu-mei Shih's study is the first book in English to offer a comprehensive account of Chinese literary modernism from Republican China. In The Lure of the Modern, Shih argues for the contextualization of Chinese modernism in the semicolonial cultural and political formation of the time.
Note:
Preliminaries; CONTENTS; Preface; Introduction; 1 Time, Modernism, and Cultural Power; 2 Evolutionism and Experimentalism; 3 Psychoanalysis and Cosmopolitanism; 4 The Libidinal and the National; 5 Loving the Other; 6 Modernity without Rupture; 7 Writing English with a Chinese Brush; 8 Gendered Negotiations with the Local; 9 Modernism and Urban Shanghai; 10 Gender, Race, and Semicolonialism; 11 Performing Semicolonial Subjectivity; 12 Capitalism and Interiority; Conclusion; Appendix; Selected Bibliography; Author/Title Index; Subject Index
,
Issued also in print.
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-520-22063-3
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1525/9780520935280
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