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Mediasphere Shanghai : The Aesthetics of Cultural Production / Alexander Des Forges.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia UniversityPublisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2007]Copyright date: ©2007Description: 1 online resource (320 p.) : 9 illusContent type:
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  • 9780824830816
  • 9780824863562
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 700/.4251132 22
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
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
Summary: 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 around the world decide that Shanghai was the place to be?Mediasphere Shanghai shows that partial answers to these questions can be found in the products of Shanghai's media industry, particularly the Shanghai novel, a distinctive genre of installment fiction that flourished from the 1890s to the 1930s. Shanghai fiction supplies not only the imagery that we now consider typical of the city, but, more significantly, the very forms-simultaneity, interruption, mediation, and excess-through which the city could be experienced as a business and entertainment center and envisioned as the focal point of a mediasphere with a national and transnational reach. Existing paradigms of Shanghai culture tend to explain the city's distinctive literary and visual aesthetics as merely the predictable result of economic conditions and social processes, but Alexander Des Forges maintains that literary texts and other cultural products themselves constitute a conceptual foundation for the city and construct the frame through which it is perceived.Working from a wide range of sources, including installment fiction, photographs, lithographic illustrations, maps, guidebooks, newspapers, and film, Des Forges demonstrates the significant social effects of aesthetic forms and practices. Mediasphere Shanghai offers a new perspective on the cultural history of the city and on the literature and culture of modern China in general.
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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

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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 around the world decide that Shanghai was the place to be?Mediasphere Shanghai shows that partial answers to these questions can be found in the products of Shanghai's media industry, particularly the Shanghai novel, a distinctive genre of installment fiction that flourished from the 1890s to the 1930s. Shanghai fiction supplies not only the imagery that we now consider typical of the city, but, more significantly, the very forms-simultaneity, interruption, mediation, and excess-through which the city could be experienced as a business and entertainment center and envisioned as the focal point of a mediasphere with a national and transnational reach. Existing paradigms of Shanghai culture tend to explain the city's distinctive literary and visual aesthetics as merely the predictable result of economic conditions and social processes, but Alexander Des Forges maintains that literary texts and other cultural products themselves constitute a conceptual foundation for the city and construct the frame through which it is perceived.Working from a wide range of sources, including installment fiction, photographs, lithographic illustrations, maps, guidebooks, newspapers, and film, Des Forges demonstrates the significant social effects of aesthetic forms and practices. Mediasphere Shanghai offers a new perspective on the cultural history of the city and on the literature and culture of modern China in general.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)