Revealing/Reveiling Shanghai

Lisa Bernstein teaches literature and women's studies at the University of Maryland University College and is the editor of (M)Othering the Nation: Constructing and Resisting National Allegories through the Maternal Body. Chu-chueh Cheng is Professor of English at National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan, and author of The Margin without Centre: Kazuo Ishiguro.

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction: Shanghai—Real and ImaginaryLisa Bernstein and Chu-chueh ChengPart I: Old Shanghai Remembered and Imagined 1. Shanghai and the Birth of Chinese Nationalism: The May 30th Movement and the North-China Daily NewsGraham J. Matthews2. The Architectural Structure of Prewar Shanghai: Analysis of the Longtang Setting in Street Angel (1937)Gabriel F. Y. Tsang3. "City Lights" and the Dream of ShanghaiMariagrazia Costantino4. Wang Anyi's Song of Everlasting Sorrow: Memories of Shanghai as Commentary on Modern SocietyLisa BernsteinPart II: Shanghai as Other 5. Japanese Accounts of Shanghai in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth CenturiesLianying Shan6. Shanghai: City of Sin—City of Hope: Representations of Shanghai in Memoirs by Jewish Exiles and in Literary Texts about This DiasporaJennifer E. Michaels7. J. G. Ballard's Shanghai: The Ur-Postmodern CityGrant Hamilton8. Shanghai in The White Countess: Production and Consumption of an Oriental City through the Western Cinematic GazeChu-chueh ChengPart III: Shanghai Reinvented for the New Millennium 9. The Shanghai Lady, 1880s–1990s: A Fictional Figure Adrift in the Maelstrom of Chinese ModernityAndrew David Field10. Constructed City, Constructed Self: Wei Hui's Shanghai Baby and the Unfixing of the Modern SelfHeather Patrick11. "Only Shanghainese Can Understand": Popularity of Vernacular Performance and Shanghainese IdentityFang XuContributorsIndex

"This book makes a significant contribution to the fields of urban geography, cosmopolitanism, and diaspora, and is particularly timely for China studies. Its chapters on literary and cinematic representations of Shanghai are a valuable contribution to studies of Chinese cultural forms." — John Thieme, author of Postcolonial Literary Geographies: Out of Place