Chapter Four Wang Anyi’s Song of Everlasting Sorrow

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Old Shanghai Remembered and Imagined
6. Shanghai and the Birth of Chinese Nationalism 17
7. The Architectural Structure of Prewar Shanghai 37
8. “City Lights” and the Dream of Shanghai 53
9. Wang Anyi’s Song of Everlasting Sorrow 83
10. Shanghai as Other
11. Japanese Accounts of Shanghai in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries 103
12. Shanghai: City of Sin—City of Hope 123
13. J. G. Ballard’s Shanghai 143
14. Shanghai in the White Countess 159
15. Shanghai Reinvented for the New Millennium
16. The Shanghai Lady, 1880s–1990s 179
17. Constructed City, Constructed Self 199
18. “Only Shanghainese Can Understand” 215
19. Contributors 239
20. Index 243