02551nam 22005653u 450 991045483310332120210511202929.00-520-93528-41-59734-725-6(CKB)111056485639870(EBL)223146(OCoLC)475927154(SSID)ssj0000194893(PQKBManifestationID)11180368(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000194893(PQKBWorkID)10231565(PQKB)10762167(MiAaPQ)EBC223146(EXLCZ)9911105648563987020130418d2001|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe Lure of the Modern[electronic resource] Writing Modernism in Semicolonial China, 1917-1937Berkeley University of California Press20011 online resource (443 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-22063-3 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 IndexShu-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.Chinese literatureChinese literature-- 20th century-- History and criticismModernism (Literature)Modernism (Literature) - ChinaElectronic books.Chinese literature.Chinese literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism.Modernism (Literature).Modernism (Literature) - China.895.1/09112Shih Shu-mei1961-1028300AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910454833103321The Lure of the Modern2444269UNINA