Bernstein / Cheng Revealing/Reveiling Shanghai

Cultural Representations from the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4384-7926-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Examines Shanghai both as a real city and an imaginary locale, from diverse cultural and disciplinary perspectives.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bernstein, Lisa

Cheng, Chu-chueh

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Introduction: Shanghai—Real and Imaginary
Lisa Bernstein and Chu-chueh Cheng

Part I: Old Shanghai Remembered and Imagined

1. Shanghai and the Birth of Chinese Nationalism: The May 30th Movement and the North-China Daily News
Graham J. Matthews

2. The Architectural Structure of Prewar Shanghai: Analysis of the Longtang Setting in Street Angel (1937)
Gabriel F. Y. Tsang

3. "City Lights" and the Dream of Shanghai
Mariagrazia Costantino

4. Wang Anyi's Song of Everlasting Sorrow: Memories of Shanghai as Commentary on Modern Society
Lisa Bernstein

Part II: Shanghai as Other

5. Japanese Accounts of Shanghai in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Lianying Shan

6. Shanghai: City of Sin—City of Hope: Representations of Shanghai in Memoirs by Jewish Exiles and in Literary Texts about This Diaspora
Jennifer E. Michaels

7. J. G. Ballard's Shanghai: The Ur-Postmodern City
Grant Hamilton

8. Shanghai in The White Countess: Production and Consumption of an Oriental City through the Western Cinematic Gaze
Chu-chueh Cheng

Part III: Shanghai Reinvented for the New Millennium

9. The Shanghai Lady, 1880s–1990s: A Fictional Figure Adrift in the Maelstrom of Chinese Modernity
Andrew David Field

10. Constructed City, Constructed Self: Wei Hui's Shanghai Baby and the Unfixing of the Modern Self
Heather Patrick

11. "Only Shanghainese Can Understand": Popularity of Vernacular Performance and Shanghainese Identity
Fang Xu

Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lisa Bernstein teaches literature and women's studies at the University of Maryland University College and is the editor of (M)Othering the Nation: Constructing and Resisting National Allegories through the Maternal Body. Chu-chueh Cheng is Professor of English at National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan, and author of The Margin without Centre: Kazuo Ishiguro.