The lure of the modern : writing modernism in semicolonial China, 1917-1937 / Shu-mei Shih.
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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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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction: The Global and Local Terms of Chinese Modernism
- Pt. 1. Desiring the Modern: May Fourth Occidentalism and Japanism
- 1. Time, Modernism, and Cultural Power: Local Constructions
- 2. Evolutionism and Experimentalism: Lu Xun and Tao Jingsun
- 3. Psychoanalysis and Cosmopolitanism: The Work of Guo Moruo
- 4. The Libidinal and the National: The Morality of Decadence in Yu Dafu, Teng Gu, and Others
- 5. Loving the Other: May Fourth Occidentalism in the Global Context
- Pt. 2. Rethinking the Modern: The Beijing School
- 6. Modernity without Rupture: Proposals for a New Global Culture
- 7. Writing English with a Chinese Brush: The Work of Fei Ming
- 8. Gendered Negotiations with the Local: Lin Huiyin and Ling Shuhua
- Pt. 3. Flaunting the Modern: Shanghai New Sensationism
- 9. Modernism and Urban Shanghai
- 10. Gender, Race, and Semicolonialism: Liu Na'ou's Urban Shanghai Landscape
- 11. Performing Semicolonial Subjectivity: The Work of Mu Shiying
- 12. Capitalism and Interiority: Shi Zhecun's Tales of the Erotic-Grotesque
- Conclusion: Semicolonialism and Culture
- App. Later Modernisms: The War Years and Beyond
- Selected Bibliography
- Author/Title Index
- Subject Index.