Shadow Modernism: Photography, Writing, and Space in Shanghai, 1925-1937

by William Schaefer

During the early twentieth century, Shanghai was the center of China's new media culture. Described by the modernist writer Mu Shiying as "transplanted from Europe" and "paved with shadows," for many of its residents Shanghai was a city without a past paradoxically haunted by the absent past's traces. In Shadow Modernism William Schaefer traces how photographic practices in Shanghai provided a forum within which to debate culture, ethnicity, history,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822369192
• ISBN13: 9780822369196
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"