Mapping Modern Beijing

Weijie Song is Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at Rutgers University.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Affective Mapping of Modern Beijing Articulating Beijing in My HeartEmotion, Qing, and Chinese Urban Narrative Five Methods of Imagining Beijing Chapter 1: A Warped Hometown: Lao She and the Beijing Complex Utopianist (Dis)Enchantment, Materialized Desire, and Urban Darkness Atlas of Wartime EmotionsIde©ology and the Socialist Production of SpaceTeahouse, Warped Miniature, and Self- MourningChapter 2: Urban Snapshots and Manners: Zhang Henshui and the Beijing DreamCuriosity, Novelty, and the Ghost HouseThe City and Its Family Romance An Unofficial History of EmotionsChapter 3: The Aesthetic versus the Political: Lin Huiyin and the CityThe Poetics and Politics of Urban Objects Passion and Pain in PlaceAn Alternative Urban BlueprintOblivion and RecollectionChapter 4: A Comparative Imperial Capital: Lin Yutang, Princess Der Ling, Victor Segalen, and the Views from Near and AfarAn Ideal- Type City and the Performance of Pleasure The Twilight of Empire and the Disclosure of the Forbidden CityBeneath the "Great Within," Horizontal Wells, and Spatial ExoticismChapter 5: A Displaced City and Postmemory: Relocating Beijing in Sinophone Writing Food Memory, Emotional Topography, and Bittersweet AftertasteBeijing Sojourn: Between Allergy and EulogyIn(Ex)clusion and Chivalric Geography Epilogue: Beijing and BeyondUrban Literature in Late Qing and Republican ChinaMapping Mainland Cities after 1949Imagining Taipei, Hong Kong, and Beyond Selected BibliographyIndex

"[Weijie Song] is engaging brilliantly in what I would call spatial reading... this book is of great value to the evolving study of modern and contemporary Chinese culture, particularly in responding to recent emphases on global and cosmopolitan perspectives and intercultural interactions, but also in creating a context in which to showcase major cultural figures who have not necessarily gotten the attention they deserve.