8 Eileen Chang: Romances in a Fallen City

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS ix
3. ILLUSTRATIONS xi
4. PREFACE xiii
5. I THE BACKGROUND OF URBAN CULTURE
6. 1 Remapping Shanghai 3
7. 2 The Construction of Modernity in Print Culture 43
8. 3 The Urban Milieu of Shanghai Cinema 82
9. 4 Textual Transactions: Discovering Literary Modernism through Books and Journals 120
10. II THE MODERN LITERARY IMAGINATION: WRITERS AND TEXTS
11. 5 The Erotic, the Fantastic, and the Uncanny: Shi Zhecun’s Experimental Stories 153
12. 6 Face, Body, and the City: The Fiction of Liu Na’ou and Mu Shiying 190
13. 7 Decadent and Dandy: Shao Xunmei and Ye Lingfeng 232
14. 8 Eileen Chang: Romances in a Fallen City 267
15. III REFLECTIONS
16. 9 Shanghai Cosmopolitanism 307
17. 10 Epilogue: A Tale of Two Cities 324
18. NOTES 343
19. Glossary 387
20. INDEX 399