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Forges, Alexander Des. - Mediasphere Shanghai: The Aesthetics of Cultural Production.

Honolulu, Hawaii : University of Hawai'i Press, 2007. Hardcover. Dustjacket. 296 pp. English text. Condition : as new. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. - For many in the west, Shanghai is the quintessence of East Asian modernity, whether imagined as glamorous and exciting, corrupt and impoverishing, or a complex synthesis of the good, the bad, and the ugly. How did Shanghai acquire this power? How did people across China and around the world decide that Shanghai was the place to be? Mediasphere Shanghai shows that partial answers to these questions can be found in the products of Shanghai's media industry, particularly the Shanghai novel, a distinctive genre of installment fiction that flourished from the 1890s to the 1930s. Shanghai fiction supplies not only the imagery that we now consider typical of the city, but, more significantly, the very formsâ simultaneity, interruption, mediation, and excessâ through which the city could be experienced as a business and entertainment center and envisioned as the focal point of a mediasphere with a national and transnational reach. Existing paradigms of Shanghai culture tend to explain the city's distinctive literary and visual aesthetics as merely the predictable result of economic conditions and social processes, but Alexander Des Forges maintains that literary texts and other cultural products themselves constitute a conceptual foundation for the city and construct the frame through which it is perceived. ISBN 9780824830816.
EUR 12.00 [Appr.: US$ 13.96 | £UK 10.5 | JP¥ 2070] Book number #272530

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