Mapping Modern Beijing - Space, Emotion, Literary Topography

Mapping Modern Beijing investigates various modes of representing Beijing by writers travelling across mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and overseas Sinophone and non-Chinese communities.

List of contents

• Acknowledgments


• Introduction


• Chapter 1: A Warped Hometown: Lao She and Beijing Complex


• Chapter 2: Urban Snapshots and Manners: Zhang Henshui and Beijing Dream


• Chapter 3: The Aesthetic versus the Political: Lin Huiyin and the City


• Chapter 4: A Comparative Imperial Capital: Lin Yutang, Princess Der Ling, Victor Segalen, and Views from Near and Afar


• Chapter 5: A Displaced City and Postmemory: Relocating Beijing in Sinophone Writing


• Epilogue


• Selected Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Weijie Song is Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at Rutgers University.

Summary

Mapping Modern Beijing investigates various modes of representing Beijing by writers travelling across mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and overseas Sinophone and non-Chinese communities.

Additional text

The careful treatments of these cities and people's relationships with them make Shadow Modernism and Mapping Modern Beijing eminently rewarding reads. They shed new light on much familiar material while unearthing work that has escaped the attention of scholars to date. They also underscore why it is that these two cities, like a handful of other "world cities", have persisted as motors of cultural change down to the present. Both books are remarkable contributions and deserve close attention from historians, geographers, and urbanists well beyond the field of Chinese Studies.

Product details

• Authors: Song, Weijie Song, Weijie (Associate Professor Song
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9780190200671
• ISBN: 978-0-19-020067-1
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, HISTORY / Social History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Chinese, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Urban communities, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000