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The Lure of the Modern: Writing Modernism in Semicolonial China, 1917-1937

The Lure of the Modern: Writing Modernism in Semicolonial China, 1917-1937

Shih, Shu-Mei

Paperback

Series: Berkeley Interdisciplinary Studies of China

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0520220641
ISBN13: 9780520220645
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Apr 20 2001
Pages: 440
Weight: 1.30
Height: 1.07 Width: 5.99 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
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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