Alexander Des Forges is assistant professor of Chinese in the Department of Modern Languages and the Program in East Asian Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.
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 forms—simultaneity, interruption, mediation, and excess—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.
Working from a wide range of sources, including installment fiction, photographs, lithographic illustrations, maps, guidebooks, newspapers, and film, Des Forges demonstrates the significant social effects of aesthetic forms and practices. Mediasphere Shanghai offers a new perspective on the cultural history of the city and on the literature and culture of modern China in general.
發表於2024-12-23
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作者戴沙迪是林培瑞PERRY LINK的學生,現在麻州大學任教。 陳平原 王德威主編的《北京:都市想象與文化記憶》(05年北大開的一次北京都市文化國際研討會的論文結集)中,收有他“北京是上海的産品嗎?”一篇短文。
評分作者戴沙迪是林培瑞PERRY LINK的學生,現在麻州大學任教。 陳平原 王德威主編的《北京:都市想象與文化記憶》(05年北大開的一次北京都市文化國際研討會的論文結集)中,收有他“北京是上海的産品嗎?”一篇短文。
評分作者戴沙迪是林培瑞PERRY LINK的學生,現在麻州大學任教。 陳平原 王德威主編的《北京:都市想象與文化記憶》(05年北大開的一次北京都市文化國際研討會的論文結集)中,收有他“北京是上海的産品嗎?”一篇短文。
評分作者戴沙迪是林培瑞PERRY LINK的學生,現在麻州大學任教。 陳平原 王德威主編的《北京:都市想象與文化記憶》(05年北大開的一次北京都市文化國際研討會的論文結集)中,收有他“北京是上海的産品嗎?”一篇短文。
評分作者戴沙迪是林培瑞PERRY LINK的學生,現在麻州大學任教。 陳平原 王德威主編的《北京:都市想象與文化記憶》(05年北大開的一次北京都市文化國際研討會的論文結集)中,收有他“北京是上海的産品嗎?”一篇短文。
圖書標籤: 海外中國研究 Shanghai 上海 cultural_production modernity 文化研究 現當代文學 民國
角度新穎,從小說和媒體來展開討論。對於上海人身份樹立和上海這個地名從一個中國城市到外灘轉移的論述都很創新。隻是書沒多少頁,接近一半的頁數都是文獻,很多論點缺乏支撐
評分待看。
評分現在我終於可以自豪又驕傲地標記為已讀瞭 還不錯 畢業論文就靠它瞭#英語太差看得真頭疼 觀點蠻有意思的
評分非常精彩的一本書,這本書正顯示瞭人文學科藉鑒一點社會科學的理論是大有可為的。盡管我覺得作者在理論上還是有點問題,例如對媒介圈、媒介等理解上有失偏頗。
評分問題和視角都很有趣且新穎。
Mediasphere Shanghai 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載