1st Edition
Dandyism and Transcultural Modernity The Dandy, the Flaneur, and the Translator in 1930s Shanghai, Tokyo, and Paris
By Hsiao-yen Peng
Copyright 2010
282 Pages
23 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
280 Pages
23 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
280 Pages
23 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book views the Neo-Sensation mode of writing as a traveling genre, or style, that originated in France, moved on to Japan, and then to China. The author contends that modernity is possible only on "the transcultural site"—transcultural in the sense of breaking the divide between past and present, elite and popular, national and regional, male and female, literary and non-literary, inside and... Read more
Introduction: Dandyism, the Quintessence of Transcultural Modernity 1. A Dandy, Traveler, and Woman Watcher: Liu Na’ou from Taiwan 2. A Traveling Subgenre: The Palm-of-the-Hand Story 3. The Flâneur and the Flâneuse: Yokomitsu Riichi’s Shanghai 4. A Traveling Text: Souvenirs entomologiques 5. A Traveling Disease: The "Malady of the Heart" and the Modern Boy Conclusion: To Connect
Biography
Peng Hsiao-yen is a research fellow at Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica. She has published Antithesis Overcome: Shen Congwen’s Avant-gardism and Primitivism and, in Chinese, Beyond realism and Desire in Shanghai: From Zhang Ziping to Liu Na’ou.
