[PDF.50qb] Shanghai Modern: The Flowering of a New Urban Culture in China, 1930–1945 (Interpretations of Asia)

Shanghai Modern: The Flowering of a New Urban Culture in China, 1930–1945 (Interpretations of Asia)

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 | #1083234 in Books |  Harvard University Press |  1999-09-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.02 x1.03 x5.98l,1.34 | File type: PDF | 464 pages

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||12 of 14 people found the following review helpful.| An excellent introduction to Shanghai's cultural legacy|By Elisabeth W. Movius|Shanghai is best known for its negative legacies, "whore of the orient" and all that. But while those foreigners were drinking themselves silly all hours of the day, the city's Chinese residents were building up a world of art and letters that China had not since been able to rival.
Authors wi|From Library Journal|Lee is a distinguished professor of Chinese literature at Harvard University who has had a long association with the founders of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Being thus well versed in both Chinese and Western literature allows him to define C

In the midst of China's wild rush to modernize, a surprising note of reality arises: Shanghai, it seems, was once modern indeed, a pulsing center of commerce and art in the heart of the twentieth century. This book immerses us in the golden age of Shanghai urban culture, a modernity at once intrinsically Chinese and profoundly anomalous, blending new and indigenous ideas with those flooding into this "treaty port" from the Western world.

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