Dandyism and transcultural modernity
Subtitle: the dandy, the flaneur, and the translator in 1930s Shanghai, Tokyo, and Paris
By: Peng Hsiao-yen.
Series: Academia Sinica on East Asia
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780415584289; 9780203847503
Subjects: Oriental literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Cultural pluralism in literature; Dandyism in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: dandyism, the quintessence of transcultural modernity; title: A dandy, traveler, and woman watcher : Liu Na'ou from Taiwan; title: A traveling subgenre : the palm-of-the-hand story; title: The flâneur and the flâneuse : Yokomitsu Riichi's Shanghai; title: A traveling text : souvenirs entomologiques; title: A traveling disease : the "malady of the heart" and the modern boy conclusion : to connect.