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

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
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Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2007]
©2007
Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
Series:Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.) :; 9 illus.
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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