The city in modern Chinese literature & film : configurations of space, time, and gender / Yingjin Zhang
- Bib ID:
- 1179165
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Zhang, Yingjin
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- Description:
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- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c1996
- xix, 390 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0804726825 (alkaline paper)
- Summary:
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This study explores the ways in which the city and urban life have been represented in modern Chinese literature and film. The author has three aims: to trace the literary and filmic configurations (i.e., symbolic constructions) of the city in modern China; to investigate the ways the city is placed in an ambivalent - if not negative - light in these configurations; and to work toward an understanding of how one can study the nature of the city/country problematic in modern Chinese literary history.
The book draws upon many literary and filmic texts that have been either previously ignored or deemed of no importance, and presents them in such a way that they - together with certain canonical works interpreted from new perspectives - point to an important structure of urban imagination in modern China. Throughout, the author draws upon theoretical insights from a wide variety of disciplines - anthropology, history, psychology, sociology, as well as literature, film, and cultural studies - to illuminate particular issues.
- Full contents:
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- Preface: An Invitation to Explore the City
- 1. Introduction: The City in Modern Chinese Cultural History
- 2. Urban Configurations: Small Town, Ancient Capital, Modern Metropolis
- 3. Mapping the Ancient Capital of Beijing
- 4. The Symbolic Triumph of Chinese Tradition in Beijing
- 5. Reading the Illegible Metropolis of Shanghai
- 6. The Circulation of Temporality and Eroticism in Shanghai
- 7. Imagining the Modern Woman in Shanghai
- 8. The Female Visions of the Modern City
- Afterword: A Perspective on Modern Chinese Literary History.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-358) and index.
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- Publication date:
- 1996
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