Shanghai Literary Imaginings: A City in Transformation [Paperback]

This book draws on a wide range of methods-including approaches from literary studies, cultural studies, and urban sociology-to analyse the transformation of Shanghai through rapid growth and widespread urban renewal. Lena Scheen explores the literary imaginings of the city, 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.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.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.Lena Scheen is assistant professor/faculty fellow at New York University Shanghai (NYU Shanghai).US? Lena Scheen / Taylor & Francis Group 2015