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Shanghai modern : the flowering of a new urban culture in China, 1930-1945
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ISBN: 0674805518 067480550X Year: 1999 Publisher: Cambridge (Mass.): Harvard university press

Voices from the iron house : a study of Lu Xun.
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ISBN: 0253362636 Year: 1987 Publisher: Bloomington Indiana university press

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Shanghai Modern : The Flowering of a New Urban Culture in China, 1930-1945
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In the midst of China’s wild rush to modernize, a surprising note of reality arises: Shanghai, it seems, was once modern indeed, a pulsing center of commerce and art in the heart of the twentieth century. This book immerses us in the golden age of Shanghai urban culture, a modernity at once intrinsically Chinese and profoundly anomalous, blending new and indigenous ideas with those flooding into this “treaty port” from the Western world. A preeminent specialist in Chinese studies, Leo Ou-fan Lee gives us a rare wide-angle view of Shanghai culture in the making. He shows us the architecture and urban spaces in which the new commercial culture flourished, then guides us through the publishing and filmmaking industries that nurtured a whole generation of artists and established a bold new style in urban life known as modeng. In the work of six writers of the time, particularly Shi Zhecun, Mu Shiying, and Eileen Chang, Lee discloses the reflection of Shanghai’s urban landscape—foreign and familiar, oppressive and seductive, traditional and innovative. This work acquires a broader historical and cosmopolitan context with a look at the cultural links between Shanghai and Hong Kong, a virtual genealogy of Chinese modernity from the 1930s to the present day.

City between worlds : my Hong Kong
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ISBN: 0674056604 0674027019 0674046897 Year: 2008 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press,

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Hong Kong is perched on the fault line between China and the West, a Special Administrative Region of the PRC. Leo Ou-fan Lee offers an insider’s view of Hong Kong, capturing the history and culture that make his densely packed home city so different from its generic neighbors. The search for an indigenous Hong Kong takes Lee to the wet markets and corner bookshops of congested Mong Kok, remote fishing villages and mountainside temples, teahouses and noodle stalls, Cantonese opera and Cantopop. But he also finds the “real” Hong Kong in a maze of interconnected shopping malls, a jungle of high-rise residential towers, and the neon glow of Chinese-owned skyscrapers in the Central Business District, where land development, global trade, capital accumulation, consumerism, and free-market competition trump every value—except family. Lee illuminates the relationship between Hong Kong’s geography and its colonial experience, revisiting colonial life on the secluded Peak, in the opium-filled godowns along the harborfront, and in crowded, plague-infested tenements. He examines, with a critic’s eye, the “Hong Kong story” in film and fiction: romance in the bars and brothels of Wan Chai, crime in the walled city of Kowloon, ennui on the eve of the 1997 handover. Whether viewed from Tsing Yi Bridge or the deck of the Star Ferry, from Victoria Peak or Lion Rock, Hong Kong sparkles here in all its multifaceted complexity, a city forever between worlds.


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The Romantic generation of modern Chinese writers
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Year: 1973 Publisher: Cambridge Harvard University Press

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City Between Worlds
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ISBN: 9780674056602 Year: 2010 Publisher: Cambridge, MA

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Shanghai Modern
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ISBN: 9780674274716 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cambridge, MA

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The Romantic Generation of Chinese Writers
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City Between Worlds : My Hong Kong
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ISBN: 9780674056602 Year: 2010 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press

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