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Price: £14.00
Pages: 134
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Imprint: Hong Kong University Press
Series: RAS China in Shanghai
Publication Date:
18 March 2014
Trim Size: 7.05 X 5.24 in
ISBN: 9789888208142
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
"Mu Shiying was one of China's pioneer modernists, and his stories are full of inventive touches, including his own experimental technique of stream-of-consciousness, that evoke the emergent splendour of urban decadence of Shanghai in the 1930s. This Engl
"Field is a careful translator who clearly strives for a compromise among readability, faithfulness, and completeness. [... His] volume is a most welcome contribution to the canon of Republican-era literature in translation. It will not only heighten our ap
"Mu Shiying is a legendary figure of 1930s Shanghai. His dazzling chronicle of modern Shanghai gave rise to Chinese modernist literature. His meteoric career as a writer, a fl�neur, and allegedly a double agent testifies to cosmopolitanism at its most fla
"Mu's stories give readers a glimpse into the lively and vibrant, yet sometimes empty and soulless life in Shanghai during the early 1930s." --Asian Review of Books, 26 May 2014
"During his short, tumultuous life, Mu Shiying produced a small oeuvre of remarkable short stories that stand out in the wider context of modern Chinese literature. He captures the essence of the Shanghai jazz age with his racy, musical, and often fragmen
"Field is a careful translator who clearly strives for a compromise among readability, faithfulness, and completeness. [... His] volume is a most welcome contribution to the canon of Republican-era literature in translation. It will not only heighten our ap
"Mu Shiying is a legendary figure of 1930s Shanghai. His dazzling chronicle of modern Shanghai gave rise to Chinese modernist literature. His meteoric career as a writer, a fl�neur, and allegedly a double agent testifies to cosmopolitanism at its most fla
"Mu's stories give readers a glimpse into the lively and vibrant, yet sometimes empty and soulless life in Shanghai during the early 1930s." --Asian Review of Books, 26 May 2014
"During his short, tumultuous life, Mu Shiying produced a small oeuvre of remarkable short stories that stand out in the wider context of modern Chinese literature. He captures the essence of the Shanghai jazz age with his racy, musical, and often fragmen
Andrew David Field is the author of Shanghai's Dancing World Cabaret Culture and Urban Politics, 1919-1954.