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The Lure of the Modern: Writing Modernism in Semicolonial China, 1917-1937 (Berkeley Series in Interdisciplinary Studies of China)

By Shu-mei Shih

Book information

Year
2001
ISBN
0520220633, 9780520220638, 9780585390239
Open Library ID
OL15502486M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1567921 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
462\443
Topic
History
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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. Engaging critically with theories of modernism, postcoloniality, and global and local cultural studies, Shih analyzes pivotal issues-such as psychoanalysis, decadence, Orientalism, Occidentalism, semicolonial subjectivity, cosmopolitanism, and urbanism-that were mediated by Japanese as well as Western modernisms.

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