The lure of the modern : writing modernism in semicolonial China, 1917-1937 /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2001.
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| Series: | Berkeley series in interdisciplinary studies of China ;
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=66100 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction. The global and local terms of Chinese modernism
- pt. 1. Desiring the modern: May Fourth occidentalism and Japanism. Time, modernism, and cultural power: local constructions. Evolutionism and experimentlism: Lu Xun and Tao Jingsun. Psychoanalysis and cosmopolitanism: the work of Guo Moruo. The libidinal and the national: the morality of decadence in Yu Dafu, Teng Gu, and others. Loving the other: May Fourth occidentalism and the global context
- pt. 2. Rethinking the modern: the Beijing School. Modernity without rupture: proposals for a new global culture. Writing English with a Chinese brush: the work of Fei Ming. Gendered negotiations with the local: Lin Huiyin and Ling Shuhua
- pt. 3. Flaunting the modern: Shanghai New Sensationalism. Modernism and urban Shanghai. Gender, race, and semicolonialism: Liu Na̓ou's urban Shanghai landscape. Performing semicolonial subjectivity: the work of Mu Shiying. Capitalism and interiority: Shi Zhecun's tales of the erotic-grotesque
- Conclusion. Semicolonialism and culture
- Appendix. Later modernisms: the war years and beyond.