When the avant-garde writer Mu Shiying was assassinated in 1940, China lost one of its greatest modernist writers while Shanghai lost its most detailed chronicler of its demi-monde nightlife. As Andrew David Field argues, Mu Shiying advanced modern Chinese writing beyond the vernacular expression of May 4 giants Lu Xun and Lao She to even more starkly reveal the alienation of the cosmopolitan-capitalist city of Shanghai, trapped between the forces of civilization and barbarism. Each of these five short stories focuses on the author's key obsessions: the pleasurable yet anxiety-ridden social and sexual relationships of the modern city and the decadent maelstrom of consumption and leisure in Shanghai epitomized by the dance hall and the nightclub. This study places his writings squarely within the framework of Shanghai's social and cultural nightscapes.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Hong Kong University Press
ISBN-13
9789888208142
eBay Product ID (ePID)
189637496
Product Key Features
Book Title
Mu Shiying: China's Lost Modernist-New Translations and an Appreciation
Author
Andrew David Field
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Literary Theory
Publication Year
2014
Number of Pages
160 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
179mm
Item Width
125mm
Item Weight
180g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Andrew David Field
Country/Region of Manufacture
Hong Kong
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