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Popular Magazines and Fiction in Shanghai, 1914–1925
- Modernity, the Cultural Imaginary, and the Middle Society
Engelsk Paperback

Popular Magazines and Fiction in Shanghai, 1914–1925

- Modernity, the Cultural Imaginary, and the Middle Society
Engelsk Paperback

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This book explores the rise of Shanghai-based popular magazines produced by the “Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies School” in early twentieth-century China. It examines the national, gender, family, and social imaginaries constructed and negotiated through a complex network of relationships between popular writers, magazine editors, and their intended readers, which were represented in various forms of popular narratives, including patriotic stories, war/military stories, family narratives, domestic fiction, utopian writings, and industrial-business stories. The author argues that the national imagination, social ideals, and the notions of ideal womanhood and the new family, were intrinsically linked and integral to the search for cultural identity of the emerging Chinese “middle society” and an expression of their collective sensibilities, experiences, and aspirations. This book suggests that the cultural imaginaries configurated in these magazine stories articulated a shared quest for modernity, one that emphasized sentiment, quotidian experience, the pursuit of the modern family and individual success, strengthening of the nation, and the reinvention of cultural tradition. Popular magazines and fiction, therefore, became uniquely instrumental in catalyzing the process of Chinese modernity, which emerged and developed along the symbiotic interrelations between the private and the public, the traditional and the modern, and the real and the imaginary.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
412
ISBN-13:
9781498544801
Indbinding:
Paperback
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ISBN-10:
1498544800
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Udg. Dato:
15 aug 2023
Længde:
21mm
Bredde:
153mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
Lexington Books
Oplagsdato:
15 aug 2023
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