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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785786303321

Autore

Ryū Kenki <1961->

Titolo

Demon capital Shanghai [[electronic resource] ] : the "modern" experience of Japanese intellectuals / / Liu Jianhui ; translated by Joshua A. Fogel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Portland, Maine, : MerwinAsia

[s.l.], : distributed by University of Hawai'i Press, 2012

ISBN

1-937385-16-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (204 p.)

Soggetti

International relations

Shanghai (China) History 19th century

Shanghai (China) History 20th century

Japan Foreign relations China

China Foreign relations Japan

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Title in original language: Mato Shanhai: Nihon chishikijin no 'kindai' taiken".

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Demon Shanghai Front Cover""; ""Front Matter""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Prologue -  The Two Shanghais""; ""Chapter 1 - Samurai in Shanghai""; ""The Front Lines of Capitalism:  Samurai Experience in the West?""; ""The Shock Experienced by Takasugi Shinsaku""; ""Chapter 2 - Birth of an East Asian Information Network""; ""Shifts in the Informationally Advanced Nations?""; ""Toward an East Asian Hub""; ""Chapter 3 - Shanghai and the Opening of Japan""; ""The London Missionary Society Press, Site for  the Dispatch of Information""

""The West as Conveyed by Chinese Translations  of Western Works""""Two Shanghai Men Who Accelerated the Opening of Japan""; ""Chapter 4 - Meiji Men Stirred by Romance""; ""Demon Capital Born of Modernity""; ""Teahouses, Brothels, Opium Dens""; ""Identity Unnerved: The Shanghai Experience of Japanese in the Meiji Era""; ""Chapter 5 Taish Writers Who Indulged in the Demon Capital""; ""Tanizaki and Akutagawa: Tourism and the Taish Writer ""; ""Cultural Border-Crossers,



from Inoue Kbai to Muramatsuf""; ""Chapter 6 - The Modern City and the Shwa Period ""

""Skyscrapers and the Modern Girl""""Modernism Extinguished""; ""Epilogue - Japan as Seen from Shanghai""; ""Index""; ""About the Author""; ""About the Translator""; ""Demon Shanghai Back Cover""