Shanghai literary imaginings a city in transformation / Lena Scheen.

Includes bibliographies and index.

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

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