The Lure of the Modern: Writing Modernism in Semicolonial China, 1917-1937 by Shih, Shu-Mei

The Lure of the Modern: Writing Modernism in Semicolonial China, 1917-1937 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520220645)

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The Lure of the Modern: Writing Modernism in Semicolonial China, 1917-1937 by Shih, Shu-Mei

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

$33.95
The Lure of the Modern: Writing Modernism in Semicolonial China, 1917-1937 by Shih, Shu-Mei

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

$33.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Shu-Mei Shih
ISBN-10: 0520220641
ISBN-13: 9780520220645
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 04/20/2001
Pages: 440
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.99w x 1.07d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2001 pg. 305
By Shu-Mei Shih
By Shu-Mei Shih
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Shu-mei Shih is Associate Professor in East Asian Languages and Cultures, Comparative Literature, and Asian American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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