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The Lure of the Modern: Writing Modernism in Semicolonial China, 1917-1937 Book

The Lure of the Modern: Writing Modernism in Semicolonial China, 1917-1937
The Lure of the Modern: Writing Modernism in Semicolonial China, 1917-1937, Quite apart from her contributions as a literary critic, Shu-mei Shih is able to historicize literary developments of the period most persuasively. Her analysis of Shanghai, the city, and the literary movement it spawned, is crafted with great sensitivit, The Lure of the Modern: Writing Modernism in Semicolonial China, 1917-1937 has a rating of 3.5 stars
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  • The Lure of the Modern: Writing Modernism in Semicolonial China, 1917-1937
  • Written by author Shu-mei Shih
  • Published by University of California Press, April 2001
  • "Quite apart from her contributions as a literary critic, Shu-mei Shih is able to historicize literary developments of the period most persuasively. Her analysis of Shanghai, the city, and the literary movement it spawned, is crafted with great sensitivit
  • "Quite apart from her contributions as a literary critic, Shu-mei Shih is able to historicize literary developments of the period most persuasively. Her analysis of Shanghai, the city, and the literary movement it spawned, is crafted with great sensitivit
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Preface
Introduction: The Global and Local Terms of Chinese Modernism1
Pt. 1Desiring the Modern: May Fourth Occidentalism and Japanism
1Time, Modernism, and Cultural Power: Local Constructions49
2Evolutionism and Experimentalism: Lu Xun and Tao Jingsun73
3Psychoanalysis and Cosmopolitanism: The Work of Guo Moruo96
4The Libidinal and the National: The Morality of Decadence in Yu Dafu, Teng Gu, and Others110
5Loving the Other: May Fourth Occidentalism in the Global Context128
Pt. 2Rethinking the Modern: The Beijing School
6Modernity without Rupture: Proposals for a New Global Culture151
7Writing English with a Chinese Brush: The Work of Fei Ming190
8Gendered Negotiations with the Local: Lin Huiyin and Ling Shuhua204
Pt. 3Flaunting the Modern: Shanghai New Sensationism
9Modernism and Urban Shanghai231
10Gender, Race, and Semicolonialism: Liu Na'ou's Urban Shanghai Landscape276
11Performing Semicolonial Subjectivity: The Work of Mu Shiying302
12Capitalism and Interiority: Shi Zhecun's Tales of the Erotic-Grotesque339
Conclusion: Semicolonialism and Culture371
AppLater Modernisms: The War Years and Beyond379
Selected Bibliography387
Author/Title Index413
Subject Index421


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