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Author Des Forges, Alexander Townsend, 1970-

Title Mediasphere Shanghai : the aesthetics of cultural production / Alexander Des Forges
Published Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, [2007]
©2007

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Description xi, 278 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Studies of the weatherhead East Asian Institute
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
Contents 1. Rhetorics of territory, mixture, and displacement -- 2. From street names to brand names : the grid of reference -- 3. Synchronized reading : installment aesthetics and the formation of the mediasphere -- 4. Desire industries : constant motion and endless narrative -- 5. Brokers, authors, "Shanghai people" -- 6. Marxists and modern girls : Shanghai fiction and the 1930s -- 7. Lineages of the contemporary and the nostalgic -- Epilogue : Shanghai 2000
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-265) and index
SUBJECT Shanghai (China) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79063254
LC no. 2007010395
ISBN 9780824830816 alkaline paper
0824830814 alkaline paper