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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454833103321

Autore

Shih Shu-mei <1961->

Titolo

The Lure of the Modern [[electronic resource] ] : Writing Modernism in Semicolonial China, 1917-1937

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2001

ISBN

0-520-93528-4

1-59734-725-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (443 p.)

Disciplina

895.1/09112

Soggetti

Chinese literature

Chinese literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism

Modernism (Literature)

Modernism (Literature) - China

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminaries; CONTENTS; Preface; Introduction; 1 Time, Modernism, and Cultural Power; 2 Evolutionism and Experimentalism; 3 Psychoanalysis and Cosmopolitanism; 4 The Libidinal and the National; 5 Loving the Other; 6 Modernity without Rupture; 7 Writing English with a Chinese Brush; 8 Gendered Negotiations with the Local; 9 Modernism and Urban Shanghai; 10 Gender, Race, and Semicolonialism; 11 Performing Semicolonial Subjectivity; 12 Capitalism and Interiority; Conclusion; Appendix; Selected Bibliography; Author/Title Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.