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Cosmopolitan Publics
Anglophone Print Culture in Semi-Colonial Shanghai
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2009
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Early twentieth-century China paired the local community to the world--a place and time when English dominated urban-centered higher and secondary education and Chinese-edited English-language magazines surfaced as a new form of translingual practice.
Cosmopolitan Publics focuses on China's "cosmopolitans," Western-educated intellectuals who returned to Shanghai in the late 1920s to publish in English and who, ultimately, became both cultural translators and citizens of the wider world. Shuang Shen highlights their work in publications such as The China Critic and T'ien Hsia, providing readers with a broader understanding of the role and function of cultural mixing, translation, and multilingualism in China's cultural modernity.
Decades later, as nationalist biases and political restrictions emerged within China, the influence of the cosmopolitans was neglected and the significance of cosmopolitan practice was underplayed. Shen's encompassing study revisits and presents the experience of Chinese modernity as far more heterogeneous, emergent, and transnational than it has been characterized until now.
Cosmopolitan Publics focuses on China's "cosmopolitans," Western-educated intellectuals who returned to Shanghai in the late 1920s to publish in English and who, ultimately, became both cultural translators and citizens of the wider world. Shuang Shen highlights their work in publications such as The China Critic and T'ien Hsia, providing readers with a broader understanding of the role and function of cultural mixing, translation, and multilingualism in China's cultural modernity.
Decades later, as nationalist biases and political restrictions emerged within China, the influence of the cosmopolitans was neglected and the significance of cosmopolitan practice was underplayed. Shen's encompassing study revisits and presents the experience of Chinese modernity as far more heterogeneous, emergent, and transnational than it has been characterized until now.
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SHUANG SHEN has been a faculty member of the City University of New York and Rutgers University, and currently teaches at Lingnan University in Hong Kong. She has published in both English- and Chinese-language journals and newspapers.
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"As the first of its kind, this groundbreaking book provides a rare perspective from which to view the multivalent (and multilingual) dimensions of China's search for modernity in the cultural sphere and showcases a phenomenon hitherto overlooked by Chinese cultural and literary historians."
— David Wang, Harvard University"Shen's book is both a rich archival study and a theoretically astute analysis."
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction: Anglophone Periodicals as Cosmopolitan Publics
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1. The China Critic: Writing the City, the Nation, and the World
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2. T'ien Hsia: Cosmopolitanism in Crisis
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3. Internationalism as a Culture of Translation: Anglophone Internationalist Magazines and Literary Translation
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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About the Author
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June 22, 2020
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9780813546995
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Keywords for this book
asian studies; literary studies; comparative literature; Shanghai; literary criticism; american; asian american studies; asian interest; asian american history; history; culture; cultural history; general history; chinese literature; chinese culture; chinese history; transnationalism; rutgers; rutgers university; rutgers university press; chinese cosmopolitans; The China Critic; T'ien Hsia; cultural mixing; translation; works in translation; multilingualism; cultural studies; higher education; secondary education; education; Chinese education; chinese modernity; modernity; migration; diaspora; migrants; anglophone periodicals; anglophone
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For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
