Mediasphere Shanghai : The Aesthetics of Cultural Production /
For many in the west, "Shanghai" is the quintessence of East Asian modernity, whether imagined as glamorous and exciting, corrupt and impoverishing, or a complex synthesis of the good, the bad, and the ugly. How did "Shanghai" acquire this power? How did people across China and a...
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaii Press,
[2007]
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| Series: | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Conventions and Abbreviations
- Introduction
- CHAPTER 1. Rhetorics of Territory, Mixture, and Displacement
- CHAPTER 2 .From Street Names to Brand Names
- CHAPTER 3. Synchronized Reading
- CHAPTER 4 Desire Industries
- CHAPTER 5. Brokers, Authors, "Shanghai People
- CHAPTER 6. Marxists and Modern Girls
- CHAPTER 7 .Lineages of the Contemporary and the Nostalgic
- Epilogue Shanghai 2000
- Notes
- Character Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index