Main entry:

Lee, Leo Ou-fan.

Title & Author:

Shanghai modern : the flowering of a new urban culture in China, 1930-1945 / Leo Ou-fan Lee.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999.

Description:

xvii, 409 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-386) and index.
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.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

067480550X (alk. paper)
9780674805507 (alk. paper)
0674805518 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780674805514 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Popular culture China Shanghai.
Culture populaire Chine Shanghai.
15.75 history of Asia.
Civilization
Economic history
Manners and customs
Popular culture
Social conditions
Stadt
Kultur
Volkskultur
Stadscultuur.
Populärkultur Kina Shanghai.
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
Schanghai

Holdings:

Location: Library main 222106
Call No.: DS796.S25 L4 1999
Status: Available