The lure of the modern
Subtitle: writing modernism in semicolonial China, 1917-1937
By: Shu-mei Shih.
Series: Berkeley series in interdisciplinary studies of China -- 1
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 427
Subjects: Chinese literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Modernism (Literature) -- China
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-411) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. The global and local terms of Chinese modernism; title: pt. 1. Desiring the modern: May Fourth occidentalism and Japanism. Time, modernism, and cultural power: local constructions. Evolutionism and experimentalism: 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; title: 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; title: 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; title: Conclusion. Semicolonialism and culture; title: Appendix. Later modernisms: the war years and beyond.