Dandyism and Transcultural Modernity : The Dandy, the Flaneur, and the Translator in 1930s Shanghai, Tokyo, and Paris

ISBN-13: 9780415584289 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 280 str.

Peng Hsiao-yen

Opis

Illustrating the concept of transcultural modernity, this text looks at the work of Liu Na'ou, Paul Morand and Yokomitsu Riichi in order to highlight three icons of the transcultural site: the 'dandy', the 'flaneur' and the 'translator'.

Spis treści

Introduction: Dandyism, the Quintessence of Transcultural Modernity  1. A Dandy, Traveler, and Woman Watcher: Liu Na’ou from Taiwan  2. A Traveling Subgenre: The Palm-of-the-Hand Story  3. The Flâneur and the Flâneuse: Yokomitsu Riichi’s Shanghai  4. A Traveling Text: Souvenirs entomologiques  5. A Traveling Disease: The "Malady of the Heart" and the Modern Boy  Conclusion: To Connect

O autorze

Peng Hsiao-yen is a research fellow at Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica. She has published Antithesis Overcome: Shen Congwen’s Avant-gardism and Primitivism and, in Chinese, Beyond realism and Desire in Shanghai: From Zhang Ziping to Liu Na’ou.