Mediasphere Shanghai: The Aesthetics of Cultural Production 9780824863562
For many in the west, "Shanghai" is the quintessence of East Asian modernity, whether imagined as glamorous an
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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Conventions and Abbreviations
Introduction
CHAPTER 1. Rhetorics of Territory, Mixture, and Displacement
CHAPTER 2 .From Street Names to Brand Names
CHAPTER 3. Synchronized Reading
CHAPTER 4 Desire Industries
CHAPTER 5. Brokers, Authors, “Shanghai People
CHAPTER 6. Marxists and Modern Girls
CHAPTER 7 .Lineages of the Contemporary and the Nostalgic
Epilogue Shanghai 2000
Notes
Character Glossary
Bibliography
Index
Contents
Acknowledgments
Conventions and Abbreviations
Introduction
CHAPTER 1. Rhetorics of Territory, Mixture, and Displacement
CHAPTER 2 .From Street Names to Brand Names
CHAPTER 3. Synchronized Reading
CHAPTER 4 Desire Industries
CHAPTER 5. Brokers, Authors, “Shanghai People
CHAPTER 6. Marxists and Modern Girls
CHAPTER 7 .Lineages of the Contemporary and the Nostalgic
Epilogue Shanghai 2000
Notes
Character Glossary
Bibliography
Index
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