(Re-)Reading Shanghai’s Futures in Ruins: Through the Legend of an (Extra-)Ordinary Woman in The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai
This essay is an allegorical reading of Shanghai futures through a fictive woman, Wang Qiyao, in Wang Anyi’s novel, The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai (1996). The novel is about her life in China from the 1940s to the 1980s. Using Benjamin’s critique of 19th century Paris in relatio...
Main Author: | Ian Ho-yin Fong |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Linköping University Electronic Press
2012-01-01
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Series: | Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research |
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Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/cu.2000.1525.124248 |
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