The Lure of the Modern

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The Lure of the Modern is written by Shu-mei Shih and published by Univ of California Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0520935284 (ISBN 10) and 9780520935280 (ISBN 13).

Shu-mei Shih's study is the first book in English to offer a comprehensive account of Chinese literary modernism from Republican China. In The Lure of the Modern, Shih argues for the contextualization of Chinese modernism in the semicolonial cultural and political formation of the time. Engaging critically with theories of modernism, postcoloniality, and global and local cultural studies, Shih analyzes pivotal issues—such as psychoanalysis, decadence, Orientalism, Occidentalism, semicolonial subjectivity, cosmopolitanism, and urbanism—that were mediated by Japanese as well as Western modernisms.