Preface

PART I: The Background of Urban Culture

1. Remapping Shanghai

2. The Construction of Modernity in Print Culture

3. The Urban Milieu of Shanghai Cinema

4. Textual Transactions: Discovering Literary Modernism through Books and Journals

PART II: The Modern Literary Imagination: Writers and Texts

5. The Erotic, the Fantastic, and the Uncanny: Shi Zhecun's Experimental Stories

6. Face, Body, and the City: The Fiction of Liu Na'ou and Mu Shiying

7. Decadent and Dandy: Shao Xunmei and Ye Lingfeng

8. Eileen Chang: Romances in a Fallen City

III. Reflections

9. Shanghai Cosmopolitanism

10. Epilogue: A Tale of Two Cities

Notes

Glossary

Index

Leo Ou-fan Lee is Professor Emeritus of Chinese Literature at Harvard University and Professor of Humanities at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

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