Shanghai Literary Imaginings
Subtitle: A City in Transformation
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9789089645876
Subjects: Chinese literature, history and criticism
Description: This book draws on a wide range of methods-including approaches from literary studies, cultural studies, and urban sociology-to analyse the transformation of Shanghai through rapid growth and widespread urban renewal. Lena Scheen explores the literary imaginings of the city, its past, present, and future, in order to understand the effects of that urban transformation on both the psychological state of Shanghai's citizens and their perception of the spaces they inhabit.--