Autorentext
Leo Ou-fan Lee is Professor Emeritus of Chinese Literature at Harvard University and Professor of Humanities at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Klappentext

In the midst of China's wild rush to modernize, a surprising note of reality arises: Shanghai, it seems, was once modern indeed, a pulsing center of commerce and art in the heart of the twentieth century. This book immerses us in the golden age of Shanghai urban culture, a modernity at once intrinsically Chinese and profoundly anomalous, blending new and indigenous ideas with those flooding into this "treaty port" from the Western world.

Zusammenfassung
Leo Ou-fan Lee gives us a wide-angle view of Shanghai culture in the making. He shows us the architecture and urban spaces in which the new commercial culture flourished, then guides us through the publishing and filmmaking industries that nurtured a whole generation of artists and established a bold new style in urban life known as modeng.

Inhalt

Preface PART I: The Background of Urban Culture 1. Remapping Shanghai 2. The Construction of Modernity in Print Culture 3. The Urban Milieu of Shanghai Cinema 4. Textual Transactions: Discovering Literary Modernism through Books and Journals PART II: The Modern Literary Imagination: Writers and Texts 5. The Erotic, the Fantastic, and the Uncanny: Shi Zhecun's Experimental Stories 6. Face, Body, and the City: The Fiction of Liu Na'ou and Mu Shiying 7. Decadent and Dandy: Shao Xunmei and Ye Lingfeng 8. Eileen Chang: Romances in a Fallen City III. Reflections 9. Shanghai Cosmopolitanism 10. Epilogue: A Tale of Two Cities Notes Glossary Index