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Novel (2007) 40 (3): 240–264.
Published: 01 November 2007
.... “Chinese Capitalists and the Japanese: Collaboration and Resistance in the Shanghai Area, 1937–45.” Yeh, Wartime Shanghai 62 –85. Conrad , Joseph . Heart of Darkness . 1899. 4th ed. Paul B. Armstrong, ed. New York: Norton, 2006 . Davis , Mike . “The Urbanization of Empire: Megacities...
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Novel (2018) 51 (2): 272–291.
Published: 01 August 2018
... the grain of Ballard's late novels to show how their plots, themes, and characters relate to their settings. The essay then explores Ballard's autocritical explanation of his mature fiction as a belated response to his childhood in the extraterritorial International Settlement of Shanghai, drawing on his...
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Novel (2007) 40 (3): 207–215.
Published: 01 November 2007
... their own pasts: substituting different agents, putting the same
conversations in different people's mouths, altering outcomes, and withholding
any consoling idea of the novels as the "defining, transparent event." Thus, the
film's 1930s Shanghai setting and its depictions of the 1937-1945 Sino...
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Novel (2014) 47 (1): 43–56.
Published: 01 May 2014
... . Libo Zhou . Sanshi niandai wenxue pinglun ji [Collection of Literary Reviews in the 1930s] . Shanghai : Shanghai wenyi , 1984 . ———. Zhou Libo luji jianggao [Zhou Libo's Lecture Notes in the Lu Xun Academy] . Shanghai : Shanghai wenyi , 1984 . The People in the Modern Chinese Novel...
Journal Article
Novel (2022) 55 (1): 155–159.
Published: 01 May 2022
... as extraterritorial: J. G. Ballard's and Kazuo Ishiguro's novels set in the Shanghai International Settlement are a major focus, as is China Miéville's The City and the City , with its science fictional double-space. But many do not. The strength of Hart's analysis is his capacity to show how the extraterritorial...
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Novel (2007) 40 (3): 265–288.
Published: 01 November 2007
... expatriates of Shanghai's In-
ternational Settlement calls attention to When We Were Orphans's evolving, dis-
concerting suggestion of the lack of specific referent behind Banks's chosen term.
"This case" is referred to repeatedly, in these early pages depicting his return to
Shanghai-as if Banks...
Journal Article
Novel (2004) 37 (3): 258–276.
Published: 01 November 2004
...) in Hong Kong, and various publishers in
mainland China. Total sales of Murakami's works in China reached 1.5 million copies in 2002.
In Shanghai alone, the Chinese translation of Nonuegian Wood was reprinted sixteen times in
two years. Also in South Korea, where Murakami's books often...
Journal Article
Novel (2019) 52 (3): 369–385.
Published: 01 November 2019
... the city's visibly uneven development is that this reflected the wider contradictions of China's semicolonial status in the early twentieth century. As Liu Kang suggests, Chinese cities such as Shanghai and Peking saw modern production methods, technologies, and infrastructures introduced under the military...
Journal Article
Novel (2004) 38 (1): 57–83.
Published: 01 May 2004
... Cinema as Vernacular Modernism.” Modernism/Modernity 6 : 2 ( April 1999 ): 59 –77. Hansen , Miriam . “Benjamin and Cinema: Not a One-Way Street.” Critical Inquiry 25 (Winter 1999 ): 306 –43. Hansen , Miriam . “Fallen Women, Rising Stars, New Horizons: Shanghai Silent Film...
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Novel (2004) 38 (1): 5–20.
Published: 01 May 2004
... OF POSTMODERN FICTION
Welles's films Tlze Lady from Shanghai or F for Fake, or-a more recent
example-Christopher Nolan's Memento, although the structure of Cooper's
novel is considerably more complex than these.
Walker Crane's Period is about an artist somewhat like Walker Crane himself,
who...
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Novel (2019) 52 (3): 347–368.
Published: 01 November 2019
..., which were unfamiliar to them. Although the educated youths were deprived of opportunities to receive further education, they were in far better standing than the peasants. Growing up in Shanghai, Wang Anyi has described the Cultural Revolution as a period “when there was no lack of books” because “[t...
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