Lure of the Modern - Writing Modernism in Semicolonial China, 1917-1937

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List of contents

Preface
Introduction
The Global and Local Terms of Chinese Modernism

PART ONE: Desiring the Modern: May Fourth Occidentalism and Japanism
1. Time, Modernism, and Cultural Power: Local Constructions
2. Evolutionism and Experimentalism: Lu Xun and Tao Jingsun
3. Psychoanalysis and Cosmopolitanism: The Work of Guo Moruo
4. The Libidinal and the National: The Morality of Decadence in Yu Dafu, Teng Gu, and Others
5. Loving the Other: May Fourth Occidentalism in the Global Context

PART TWO: Rethinking the Modern: The Beijing School
6. Modernity without Rupture: Proposals for a New Global Culture
7. Writing English with a Chinese Brush: The Work of Fei Ming
8. Gendered Negotiations with the Local: Lin Huiyin and Ling Shuhua

PART THREE: Flaunting the Modern: Shanghai New Sensationism
9. Modernism and Urban Shanghai
10. Gender, Race, and Semicolonialism: Liu Na’ou’s Urban Shanghai Landscape
11. Performing Semicolonial Subjectivity: The Work of Mu Shiying
12.Capitalism and Interiority: Shi Zhecun’s Tales of the Erotic-Grotesque

Conclusion
Semicolonialism and Culture
Appendix
Later Modernisms: The War Years and Beyond
Bibliography
Index

About the author

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.

Summary

An account of Chinese literary modernism, written from the perspective of Republican China. Shih argues for the contextualization of Chinese modernism in the semicolonial cultural and political formation of the time and analyzes pivotal issues, such as decadence and Orientalism.

Product details

• Authors: Shumei Shi, Shu-Mei Shih, Shih Shu-mei
• Assisted by: Shu-Mei Shih (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.04.2001
• EAN: 9780520220645
• ISBN: 978-0-520-22064-5
• No. of pages: 440
• Series: Berkeley Series in Interdiscip; Berkeley Series in Interdisciplinary Studies of China
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Education, Asia, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General, Literary theory, Semiotics / semiology, Literature: history and criticism