The lure of the modern : writing modernism in semicolonial China, 1917-1937

The lure of the modern : writing modernism in semicolonial China, 1917-1937 / Shu-mei Shih.

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.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shih, Shu-mei, 1961-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2001.
Series:Berkeley series in interdisciplinary studies of China ; 1.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Chinese literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature) > China.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Asian > General.
Chinese literature
Modernism (Literature)
Modernisme (cultuur)
Bellettrie.
Kritiek (algemeen)
China
China.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. The global and local terms of Chinese modernism
  • pt. 1. Desiring the modern: May Fourth occidentalism and Japanism. Time, modernism, and cultural power: local constructions. Evolutionism and experimentlism: Lu Xun and Tao Jingsun. Psychoanalysis and cosmopolitanism: the work of Guo Moruo. The libidinal and the national: the morality of decadence in Yu Dafu, Teng Gu, and others. Loving the other: May Fourth occidentalism and the global context
  • pt. 2. Rethinking the modern: the Beijing School. Modernity without rupture: proposals for a new global culture. Writing English with a Chinese brush: the work of Fei Ming. Gendered negotiations with the local: Lin Huiyin and Ling Shuhua
  • pt. 3. Flaunting the modern: Shanghai New Sensationalism. Modernism and urban Shanghai. Gender, race, and semicolonialism: Liu Nao̓u's urban Shanghai landscape. Performing semicolonial subjectivity: the work of Mu Shiying. Capitalism and interiority: Shi Zhecun's tales of the erotic-grotesque
  • Conclusion. Semicolonialism and culture
  • Appendix. Later modernisms: the war years and beyond.

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