Dandyism and Transcultural Modernity - The Dandy, Flaneur, Translator in 1930s Shanghai, Tokyo, Paris

This book views the Neo-Sensation mode of writing as a traveling genre, or style, that originated in France, moved on to Japan, and then to China. The author contends that modernity is possible only on "the transcultural site"-transcultural in the sense of breaking the divide between past and present, elite and popular, national and regional, male and female, literary and non-literary, inside and outside.

List of contents

Introduction: Dandyism, the Quintessence of Transcultural Modernity 1. A Dandy, Traveler, and Woman Watcher: Liu Na’ou from Taiwan 2. A Traveling Subgenre: The Palm-of-the-Hand Story 3. The Flâneur and the Flâneuse: Yokomitsu Riichi’s Shanghai 4. A Traveling Text: Souvenirs entomologiques 5. A Traveling Disease: The "Malady of the Heart" and the Modern Boy Conclusion: To Connect

About the author

Peng Hsiao-yen is a research fellow at Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica. She has published Antithesis Overcome: Shen Congwen’s Avant-gardism and Primitivism and, in Chinese, Beyond realism and Desire in Shanghai: From Zhang Ziping to Liu Na’ou.

Product details

• Authors: Hsiao-yen Peng
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.2015
• EAN: 9781138879072
• ISBN: 978-1-138-87907-2
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Academia Sinica on East Asia
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Sociology, Popular Culture, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Asia, HISTORY / Asia / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, HISTORY / Asia / China, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Regional Studies, Literature: history & criticism, Social and cultural anthropology, Regional / International studies, Asian History, Gender studies, gender groups, Literature: history and criticism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General