Shanghai Literary Imaginings(English, Electronic book text, Scheen Lena)

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Shanghai Literary Imaginings(English, Electronic book text, Scheen Lena) is written by Scheen Lena and published by Amsterdam University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9048522234 (ISBN 10) and 9789048522231 (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.