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Author Shih, Shu-mei, 1961-

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

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2001]
©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 427 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Berkeley series in interdisciplinary studies of China ; 1
Berkeley series in interdisciplinary studies of China ; 1.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-411) and indexes.
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 Nao̓u'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.
Summary 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.
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Subject Chinese literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Chinese literature.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Modernism (Literature) -- China.
Modernism (Literature)
China.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Shih, Shumei, 1961- Lure of the modern. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2001 0520220633 (DLC) 00062855 (OCoLC)44775063
ISBN 9780520935280 (electronic book)
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9780520220645 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
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