TY - BOOK AU - Scheen,Lena TI - Shanghai literary imaginings: a city in transformation T2 - Asian cities SN - 9048522234 AV - PL3032 .S536 2015 PY - 2015/// CY - Amsterdam PB - Amsterdam University Press KW - Chinese literature KW - China KW - Shanghai KW - History and criticism KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Conventions; Introduction; Shanghai Literary Imaginings: The City of Feeling Rising out of the City of Fact; The City of Fact; A City in Transformation; Literature in Shanghai and Shanghai in Literature; This Book; 1. Mappings; Drawing Mental Maps of Memories; Mapping Shanghai; "City Map": The Series and the Authors; Literary Maps and Mental Maps; Mapping Memories; A Mental Map of Hongkou; Concluding Remarks; 2. Seduction; Reproducing the City as Femme Fatale; Weihui and Ge Hongbing: Life and Works; Critical Reception: Selling Her Body and Selling His IntellectA Complicated Love Affair: Shanghai and the Femme Fatale; Weihui: The Screaming Body of a Shanghai Babe; Ge Hongbing: Whispering Souls on a Sandbed; An Imagined Love Affair: Coco and Zhuge; Concluding Remarks; 3. Nostalgia; Restoring Old Buildings to Rewrite the Past; Wang Anyi and Chen Danyan: Life and Works; Shanghai Nostalgia: A Culture of Reappearance; Wang Anyi: The Song of Everlasting Sorrow of Shanghai's Longtang; Chen Danyan: The Literary Preservation of Shanghai Memorabilia; Concluding Remarks; 4. Escape; Mian Mian and Jin Haishu: Life and WorksTransformation and the Notion of Escape; Mian Mian: Escape into the Crowd; Jin Haishu: Escape into the Garbage Dump; Mian Mian and Jin Haishu: Escape into the Bathroom; Concluding Remarks; In Conclusion; The Shape of a City Changes Faster than the Human Heart Can Tell; Glossary; Works Cited; Index; List of Figures; Figure 1.1# The cover of the story collection City Map and two of its stories' first publication in the journal Shanghai Literature; Figure 1.2# A map of Shanghai (1919), from the Library of Congress; Figure 1.3# Literary Map 1: The main settings of the stories in City MapFigure 1.4# Literary Map 2: The urban elements in the stories "Come Over" and "Hongkou Anecdote"; Figure 1.5# Hand-drawn maps by Yin Huifen (left) and Ding Liying; Figure 1.6# The maps of "Born on Sichuan North Road" (left) and "Bangbeinese" (grey texture in river added); Figure 1.7# The maps of "Fading Palace" (left) and "This Shore and the Other Shore" (grey texture in rivers added); Figure 2.1# The song 'Miss Shanghai', by cartoonist Friedrich Schiff (1908-68; resident in Shanghai from 1930 until 1947); Figure 3.1# From left to right: the covers of Wang Anyi's In Search of Shanghai and The Song of Everlasting Sorrow, and Chen Danyan's Shanghai TrilogyList of Tables; Table 1.1# Table of the authors of the stories collection City Map; Table 1.2# The table of contents of the stories collection City Map; Table 2.1# Fragments from Shanghai Babe and Sandbed; 2; b UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1044625&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -