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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shih, Shu-mei, 1961-

Series:

Berkeley series in interdisciplinary studies of China ; 1.

Berkeley series in interdisciplinary studies of China ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Chinese literature.

Modernism (Literature)--China.

Modernism (Literature).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 427 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

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 Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-411) and indexes.

ISBN:

0-520-93528-4

1-59734-725-6

OCLC:

475927154