Lena Scheen

Shanghai Literary Imaginings

A City in Transformation

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explores the literary imaginings of Shanghai, its past, present, and future, in order to understand the effects of that urban transformation on both the psychological state of Shanghai's citizens and their perception of the spaces they inhabit.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9789089645876
• ISBN-10: 908964587X
• Artikelnr.: 42040916

Autorenporträt

Lena Scheen is assistant professor/faculty fellow at New York University Shanghai (NYU Shanghai).

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION Writing Shanghai: The City of Feeling Rising out of the City
of Fact CHAPTER 1 Mappings: Drawing Mental Maps of Memories CHAPTER 2
Seduction: Reproducing the City as Femme Fatale CHAPTER 3 Nostalgia:
Restoring Old Buildings to Rewrite the Past CHAPTER 4 Escape: Out of and
Into Various Places 'Real' and Imagined IN CONCLUSION The Shape of a City
Changes Faster than the Human Heart Can Tell, Notes, Works Cited, Glossary,
Index.