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Author Ryū, Kenki, 1961-

Title Demon capital Shanghai : the "modern" experience of Japanese intellectuals / Liu Jianhui ; translated by Joshua A. Fogel
Published Portland, Maine : MerwinAsia ; [Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by University of Hawai'i Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (192 pages) : illustrations
Contents ""Demon Shanghai Front Cover""; ""Front Matter""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Prologue -- The Two Shanghais""; ""Chapter 1 -- Samurai in Shanghai""; ""The Front Lines of Capitalism: Samurai Experience in the “West�""; ""The Shock Experienced by Takasugi Shinsaku""; ""Chapter 2 -- Birth of an East Asian Information Network""; ""Shifts in the “Informationally Advanced Nations�""; ""Toward an East Asian Hub""; ""Chapter 3 -- Shanghai and the Opening of Japan""; ""The London Missionary Society Press, Site for the Dispatch of Information""
""The “Westâ€? as Conveyed by Chinese Translations of Western Works""""Two “Shanghai Menâ€? Who Accelerated the Opening of Japan""; ""Chapter 4 -- Meiji Men Stirred by Romance""; ""Demon Capital Born of Modernity""; ""Teahouses, Brothels, Opium Dens""; ""Identity Unnerved: The Shanghai Experience of Japanese in the Meiji Era""; ""Chapter 5 TaishÅ? Writers Who Indulged in the Demon Capital""; ""Tanizaki and Akutagawa: Tourism and the TaishÅ? Writer ""; ""Cultural Border-Crossers, from Inoue KÅ?bai to Muramatsu ShÅ?fÅ«""; ""Chapter 6 -- The Modern City and the ShÅ?wa Period ""
""Skyscrapers and the Modern Girl""""Modernism Extinguished""; ""Epilogue -- Japan as Seen from Shanghai""; ""Index""; ""About the Author""; ""About the Translator""; ""Demon Shanghai Back Cover""
Notes "Title in original language: Mato Shanhai: Nihon chishikijin no 'kindai' taiken."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject International relations.
international relations.
Diplomatic relations
International relations
SUBJECT Shanghai (China) -- History -- 19th century
Shanghai (China) -- History -- 20th century
Japan -- Foreign relations -- China
China -- Foreign relations -- Japan
Subject China
China -- Shanghai
Japan
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012930440
Other Titles Mato Shanhai. English