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Popular Magazines and Fiction in Shanghai, 1914-1925: Modernity, the Cultural Imaginary, and the Middle Society

Popular Magazines and Fiction in Shanghai, 1914-1925: Modernity, the Cultural Imaginary, and the Middle Society

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Literary CriticismChinese HistoryGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1498544800
ISBN13: 9781498544801
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Aug 15 2023
Pages: 412
Weight: 1.21
Height: 0.84 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This book examines Shanghai-based popular magazines and fiction and their role in catalyzing the process of Chinese modernity in the early twentieth century. The author argues that the national, gender, family, and social imaginaries constructed in popular magazines articulated the values and aspirations of the emerging Chinese middle society.

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