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... a postmodernizing society. (3) New patterns of readership and strategies of evading censorship have come into being in the age of the Internet. These patterns are different from those in the age of print media. At the end of the twentieth century, two Shanghai-born women writers, Mian Mian and Wei Hui...

... video CD distribu- tors tagged early PRC films as comedies, war movies, anti-espionage films, etc.) Catalogs too seem to have kept only basic demarcations; for example, the inventory of the Shanghai Municipal Film Bureau, issued in 1963 for internal use and comprising films from 1950 to 1962...

... of the Modern , Xiaobing Tang’s Chinese Modern: The Heroic and the Quotidian , and Leo Ou-fan Lee’s Shanghai Modern: The Flowering of a New Urban Culture in China, 1930–1945 . Wang’s book differs from these works not just in its focus on a later period but also in its emphasis on local experiences...

... influence on today’s film production, they reveal complex currents in an era often thought devoid of artistic significance. 12  A heated debate on the crisis of humanism was launched in 1995 by a group of Shanghai scholars centered on the journals Shanghai Literature (Shanghai wenxue...

... of reformation.4 Like the hegemonic narratives it countered, Chinese New Human­ ism was not a unified cultural movement. It was a set of cultural choices 3  Zhao Jiabi, ed., Compendium of Modern Chinese Literature (Zhongguo xinwenxue daxi) (Shanghai: Liangyou tushu gongsi, 1935), 2:13; hereafter...

... in Twentieth-Century China (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univer- sity Press, 1993). 4  “Self-Sacrifice” was published in Literature (Wenxue) on April 1, 1934. It was reprinted in a collection of Lao She’s short stories titled Ocean of Cherry Blossoms (Ying­ hai ji) (Shanghai: Renjian Shuwu, 1935). Huang...

... was regarded as critically important to women. The first girls’ school was established in Shanghai in 1897. However, educa- tion was limited to urban women from a bourgeois or “respectable” family background. This was partly responsible for the “middle-class,” urban nature of the initial feminist...

.... In this respect Malraux’s novel has an “Asian” quality about it that is fully in keeping with both its principal setting, Shanghai, and its hero, the half-Japanese Kyo. Lethal revolutionary act and sustained philosophical deliberation or debate take turns advancing the narrative. But the events...

... in Postsocialist China. By Robin Visser. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010. x + 362 pp. “Better City, Better Life” was the theme and slogan of the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai, a city that has become postsocialist China’s showcase city...

... in Postsocialist China. By Robin Visser. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010. x + 362 pp. “Better City, Better Life” was the theme and slogan of the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai, a city that has become postsocialist China’s showcase city...

... in Postsocialist China. By Robin Visser. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010. x + 362 pp. “Better City, Better Life” was the theme and slogan of the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai, a city that has become postsocialist China’s showcase city...

... in Postsocialist China. By Robin Visser. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010. x + 362 pp. “Better City, Better Life” was the theme and slogan of the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai, a city that has become postsocialist China’s showcase city...

... in Postsocialist China. By Robin Visser. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010. x + 362 pp. “Better City, Better Life” was the theme and slogan of the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai, a city that has become postsocialist China’s showcase city...

... in Postsocialist China. By Robin Visser. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010. x + 362 pp. “Better City, Better Life” was the theme and slogan of the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai, a city that has become postsocialist China’s showcase city...

... in Postsocialist China. By Robin Visser. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010. x + 362 pp. “Better City, Better Life” was the theme and slogan of the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai, a city that has become postsocialist China’s showcase city...

... weighted assumption, which are important only from a strictly biographical point of view. What remains shadowy, and what troubles Professor Frohock, is precisely what happened during Malraux’s first voyage to Indo-China, and what was Malraux’s role in the events in Canton and in Shanghai...

... of the new century. For the present, very different issue, Wang has organized an exchange of views between three of China’s most influential scholars of literary theory and three leading Western comparatists with broad experience in China. (Liu Kang is Chinese-born and has held a prominent post at Shanghai...

... humaine (1933). In this novel, Malraux’s imagination turns to the Shanghai insurrection of 1927. As in Les Conqutrants, he portrays Asian and European char- acters, but here they are more complex, subtle, and profound. The conquistador of La Condition humaine is Ferral. Like Perken, CHENG...

... collections of women’s writings throughout the centuries, that Hu Wenkai compiled in the 1940s and published in 1957 (Lidai funü zhuzuo kao [A Study of Women Writers of Past Dynasties] [rpt. Shanghai: Shanghai guji chuban- she, 1985 Save one or two titles used by Tan Zhengbi, the works I examine...

..., and promises of marriage. Huang left the Society of Southern Land to become a dancer in a Shanghai club, where she soon became famous. There she had several lovers and lived with abandon. Having heard the news, Tian ( 1929 : 532) wrote to Huang, once his protégée in the society: 但一听到你身体几年间给你自己摧残得很厉害,又何等使我黯然啊...