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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812493003321

Autore

Shi Shumei <1961->

Titolo

The lure of the modern : writing modernism in semicolonial China, 1917-1937 / / Shu-mei Shih

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2001

ISBN

0-520-93528-4

1-59734-725-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 427 pages)

Collana

Berkeley series in interdisciplinary studies of China ; ; 1

Disciplina

895.1/09112

Soggetti

Chinese literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Modernism (Literature) - China

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-411) and indexes.

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.