Mu Shiying : China's lost modernist
Authors, Chinese Mu, Shiying China LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Asian / General LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General Shanghai (China) Biography Fiction Translations sähkökirjat
Hong Kong University Press
2014
EISBN 9789888268344
List of Illustrations.
Acknowledgements.
Mu Shiying: An Appreciation of His Life, Times and Works.
Selected Stories of Mu Shiying.
The Man Who Was Treated as a Plaything.
Five in a Nightclub.
Craven 'A'.
Night 89.
Shanghai Fox-trot 103.
Black Peony.
Index.
When the avant-garde writer Mu Shiying was assassinated in 1940, China lost one of its greatest modernist writers while Shanghai lost its most detailed chronicler of its demi-monde nightlife. As Andrew David Field argues, Mu Shiying advanced modern Chinese writing beyond the vernacular expression of May 4 giants Lu Xun and Lao She to even more starkly reveal the alienation of the cosmopolitan-capitalist city of Shanghai, trapped between the forces of civilization and barbarism. Each of these five short stories focuses on the author's key obsessions: the pleasurable yet anxiety-ridden social and sexual relationships of the modern city and the decadent maelstrom of consumption and leisure in Shanghai epitomized by the dance hall and the nightclub. This study places his writings squarely within the framework of Shanghai's social and cultural nightscapes.
Acknowledgements.
Mu Shiying: An Appreciation of His Life, Times and Works.
Selected Stories of Mu Shiying.
The Man Who Was Treated as a Plaything.
Five in a Nightclub.
Craven 'A'.
Night 89.
Shanghai Fox-trot 103.
Black Peony.
Index.
When the avant-garde writer Mu Shiying was assassinated in 1940, China lost one of its greatest modernist writers while Shanghai lost its most detailed chronicler of its demi-monde nightlife. As Andrew David Field argues, Mu Shiying advanced modern Chinese writing beyond the vernacular expression of May 4 giants Lu Xun and Lao She to even more starkly reveal the alienation of the cosmopolitan-capitalist city of Shanghai, trapped between the forces of civilization and barbarism. Each of these five short stories focuses on the author's key obsessions: the pleasurable yet anxiety-ridden social and sexual relationships of the modern city and the decadent maelstrom of consumption and leisure in Shanghai epitomized by the dance hall and the nightclub. This study places his writings squarely within the framework of Shanghai's social and cultural nightscapes.
