Shanghai Literary Imaginings

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Shanghai Literary Imaginings is written by Lena Scheen and published by Taylor & Francis. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1040796826 (ISBN 10) and 9781040796825 (ISBN 13).

This book draws on a wide range of methods-including approaches from literary studies, cultural studies, and urban sociology-to analyse the transformation of Shanghai through rapid growth and widespread urban renewal. Lena Scheen explores the literary imaginings of the city, its past, present, and future, in order to understand the effects of that urban transformation on both the psychological state of Shanghai's citizens and their perception of the spaces they inhabit.