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The Lure of the Modern
Writing Modernism in Semicolonial China, 1917-1937
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English
Published/Copyright:
2001
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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. Engaging critically with theories of modernism, postcoloniality, and global and local cultural studies, Shih analyzes pivotal issues—such as psychoanalysis, decadence, Orientalism, Occidentalism, semicolonial subjectivity, cosmopolitanism, and urbanism—that were mediated by Japanese as well as Western modernisms.
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Shih Shu-mei :
Shu-mei Shih is Associate Professor in East Asian Languages and Cultures, Comparative Literature, and Asian American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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CONTENTS
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PREFACE
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Introduction The Global and Local Terms of Chinese Modernism
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PART ONE Desiring the Modern: May Fourth Occidentalism and Japanism
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PART TWO Rethinking the Modern: The Beijing School
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PART THREE Flaunting the Modern: Shanghai New Sensationism
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Conclusion Semicolonialism and Culture
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APPENDIX Later Modernisms The War Years and Beyond
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SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
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AUTHOR/TITLE INDEX
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Subject Index
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April 20, 2001
eBook ISBN:
9780520935280
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440
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1 line illustration, 1 table
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eBook ISBN:
9780520935280
Keywords for this book
shanghai; chinese history; literature; classics; world literature; national identity; place; ethnicity; body; race; chinese media; poplar culture; film; linguistics; modernism; modernity; modern china; colonialism; postcolonial; comparative literature; china; chinese studies; ethnic studies; literary criticism; chinese literature; chinese identity; chinese modernism
