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When the avant-garde writer Mu Shiying was assassinated in 1940, China lost one of its greatest modernist writers while Shanghai lost its most detailed chronicler of its demi-monde nightlife. As Andrew David Field argues, Mu Shiying advanced modern Chinese writing beyond the vernacular expression of May 4 giants Lu Xun and Lao She to even more starkly reveal the alienation of the cosmopolitan-capitalist city of Shanghai, trapped between the forces of civilization and barbarism. Each of these five short stories focuses on the author's key obsessions: the pleasurable yet anxiety-ridden social and sexual relationships of the modern city and the decadent maelstrom of consumption and leisure in Shanghai epitomized by the dance hall and the nightclub. This study places his writings squarely within the framework of Shanghai's social and cultural nightscapes.

Authors, Chinese --- Mu, Shiying --- Mu, Shiying. --- China --- Shanghai (China) --- Changhaï (China) --- Ṣămhayi (China) --- Shang-hai (China) --- Shang hai shi (China) --- Shanghai --- Shanghai Municipality (China) --- Shanghai Shi (China) --- Shanghai Shi ren min zheng fu (China) --- Shankhaĭ (China) --- Xangai (China) --- 上海 (China) --- History --- S16/0470 --- China: Literature and theatrical art--Modern tales, short stories, prose: texts and translations --- Mu, Shih-ying --- 穆时英 --- 穆時英

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"How did ordinary people live through the extraordinary changes that swept across modern China? How did the "little people" cope with the epic upheavals that shook their lives? How did peasants transform themselves into urbanites? In this carefully researched study, Hanchao Lu weaves rich documentary data with ethnographic surveys and interviews to reconstruct the fabric of everyday life in China's largest and most complex city in the first half of this century."--Jacket. "Today, in the post-Mao, post-Deng era, China faces a vigorous resurgence of paradoxes similar to those that surfaced at the end of the imperial era. At the same time, the pragmatism of the Chinese people endures, suggesting that the lessons of the past have broad implications for urban China and urban-rural relations in China at the beginning of the third millennium."--Jacket.

Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East --- History & Archaeology --- East Asia --- Shanghai (China) --- Changhaï (China) --- Ṣămhayi (China) --- Shang-hai (China) --- Shang hai shi (China) --- Shanghai --- Shanghai Municipality (China) --- Shanghai Shi (China) --- Shanghai Shi ren min zheng fu (China) --- Shankhaĭ (China) --- Xangai (China) --- 上海 (China) --- Social life and customs --- Social conditions --- Economic conditions --- Chang-hai (China) --- Schanghai (China) --- 上海市(China) --- 上海市人民政府 (China) --- Шанхай (China) --- Śangqai (China) --- Economic history.

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Architecture and society --- Architecture --- Architecture and sociology --- Society and architecture --- Sociology and architecture --- History --- Social aspects --- Human factors --- Shanghai (China) --- Politics and government --- Changhaï (China) --- Ṣămhayi (China) --- Shang-hai (China) --- Shang hai shi (China) --- Shanghai --- Shanghai Municipality (China) --- Shanghai Shi (China) --- Shanghai Shi ren min zheng fu (China) --- Shankhaĭ (China) --- Xangai (China) --- 上海 (China) --- Chang-hai (China) --- Schanghai (China) --- 上海市(China) --- 上海市人民政府 (China) --- Шанхай (China) --- Śangqai (China)

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This collection of original essays explores the rise of popular print media in China as it relates to the quest for modernity in the global metropolis of Shanghai from 1926 to 1945. It does this by offering the first extended look at the phenomenal influence of the Liangyou pictorial, The Young Companion , arguably the most exciting monthly periodical ever published in China. Special emphasis is placed on the profound social and cultural impact of this glittering publication at a pivotal time in China. The essays explore the dynamic concept of 'kaleidoscopic modernity' and offer individual case studies on the rise of 'art' photography, the appeals of slick patent medicines, the resilience of female artists, the allure of aviation celebrities, the feistiness of women athletes, representations of modern masculinity, efforts to regulate the female body and female sexuality, and innovative research that locates the stunning impact of Liangyou in the broader context of related cultural developments in Tokyo and Seoul. Contributors include: Paul W. Ricketts, Timothy J. Shea, Emily Baum, Maura Elizabeth Cunningham, Jun Lei, Amy O'Keefe, Hongjian Wang, Ha Yoon Jung, Lesley W. Ma, Tongyun Yin, and Wang Chuchu.

Mass media --- Popular culture --- Art and photography --- Illustrated periodicals --- Photography and art --- Photography --- Periodicals --- Journalism, Pictorial --- Photojournalism --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture --- Mass communication --- Media, Mass --- Media, The --- Liang you. --- Companion pictorial --- Shanghai (China) --- Changhaï (China) --- Ṣămhayi (China) --- Shang-hai (China) --- Shang hai shi (China) --- Shanghai --- Shanghai Municipality (China) --- Shanghai Shi (China) --- Shanghai Shi ren min zheng fu (China) --- Shankhaĭ (China) --- Xangai (China) --- 上海 (China) --- In mass media. --- In popular culture. --- Social conditions --- Social life and customs --- Chang-hai (China) --- Schanghai (China) --- 上海市(China) --- 上海市人民政府 (China) --- Шанхай (China) --- Śangqai (China)

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The first biography of Carl Crow - one of the best-known and most successful Americans to live and work in Shanghai between the wars. After a successful career as a newspaperman and the proprietor of China's largest advertising agency in the 1930s he went on to write over a dozen books on China including the best selling series of anecdotes of his time in Shanghai: Four Hundred Million Customers.

Third World: economic development problems --- China --- Americans -- China -- Shanghai -- Biography. --- Crow, Carl, 1883-1945. --- Journalists -- China -- Shanghai -- Biography. --- Journalists -- United States -- Biography. --- Shanghai (China) -- History -- 20th century. --- Shanghai (China) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century. --- Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East --- East Asia --- History & Archaeology --- S05/0229 --- China: Biographies and memoirs--Foreigners associated with China (incl. Sinologues) --- Americans --- Journalists --- Crow, Carl, --- Shanghai (China) --- Social life and customs --- History --- Columnists --- Commentators --- Yankees --- Kelao, Ka'er, --- Shanghai --- Changhaï (China) --- Shang-hai (China) --- Shang hai shi (China) --- Shanghai Shi (China) --- Shanghai Municipality (China) --- Shanghai Shi ren min zheng fu (China) --- Shankhaĭ (China) --- Xangai (China) --- 上海 (China) --- Ṣămhayi (China) --- Authors --- Ethnology --- Developing countries: economic development problems --- Chang-hai (China) --- Schanghai (China) --- 上海市(China) --- 上海市人民政府 (China) --- Шанхай (China) --- Śangqai (China)