TY - BOOK ID - 77943834 TI - Mu Shiying : China's lost modernist PY - 2014 SN - 9888268341 9789888268344 9789888208142 9888208144 PB - Hong Kong, China : Hong Kong University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Authors, Chinese KW - Mu, Shiying KW - Mu, Shiying. KW - China KW - Shanghai (China) KW - Changhaï (China) KW - Ṣămhayi (China) KW - Shang-hai (China) KW - Shang hai shi (China) KW - Shanghai KW - Shanghai Municipality (China) KW - Shanghai Shi (China) KW - Shanghai Shi ren min zheng fu (China) KW - Shankhaĭ (China) KW - Xangai (China) KW - 上海 (China) KW - History KW - S16/0470 KW - China: Literature and theatrical art--Modern tales, short stories, prose: texts and translations KW - Mu, Shih-ying KW - 穆时英 KW - 穆時英 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77943834 AB - 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. ER -