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University of California Press
Language
English
Pages
427

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Subjects
Chinese literature, Modernism (Literature), History and criticism, Chinese literature, history and criticism, Modernism (literature), Littérature chinoise, Histoire et critique, Modernisme (Littérature), LITERARY CRITICISM, Asian, General, Modernisme (cultuur), Bellettrie, Kritiek (algemeen)
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20th century

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Table of Contents

Introduction. The global and local terms of Chinese modernism
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
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
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
Conclusion. Semicolonialism and culture
Appendix. Later modernisms: the war years and beyond.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-411) and indexes.

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Berkeley series in interdisciplinary studies of China -- 1

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PL2303 .S548 2001, PL2303 .S548 2001eb, PL2303 .S57 2001

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xiii, 427 p. ;
Number of pages
427

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OL15502486M
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0520220633, 0520220641
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00062855
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44775063, 49570163
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1605132
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