Title Mapping Modern Beijing : Space, Emotion, Literary Topography

Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (321 pages) Contents Cover -- Mapping Modern Beijing -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Affective Mapping of Modern Beijing -- Articulating Beijing in My Heart -- Emotion, Qing, and Chinese Urban Narrative -- Five Methods of Imagining Beijing -- 1. A Warped Hometown: Lao She and the Beijing Complex -- Utopianist (Dis)Enchantment, Materialized Desire, and Urban Darkness -- Atlas of Wartime Emotions -- Ide©ology and the Socialist Production of Space -- Teahouse, Warped Miniature, and Self-â#x80;#x8B;Mourning 2. Urban Snapshots and Manners: Zhang Henshui and the Beijing DreamCuriosity, Novelty, and the Ghost House -- The City and Its Family Romance -- An Unofficial History of Emotions -- 3. The Aesthetic versus the Political: Lin Huiyin and the City -- The Poetics and Politics of Urban Objects -- Passion and Pain in Place -- An Alternative Urban Blueprint -- Oblivion and Recollection -- 4. A Comparative Imperial Capital: Lin Yutang, Princess Der Ling, Victor Segalen, and the Views from Near and Afar -- An Ideal-â#x80;#x8B;Type City and the Performance of Pleasure The Twilight of Empire and the Disclosure of the Forbidden CityBeneath the â#x80;#x9C;Great Within, â#x80;#x9D; Horizontal Wells, and Spatial Exoticism -- 5. A Displaced City and Postmemory: Relocating Beijing in Sinophone Writing -- Food Memory, Emotional Topography, and Bittersweet Aftertaste -- Beijing Sojourn: Between Allergy and Eulogy -- In(Ex)clusion and Chivalric Geography -- Epilogue: Beijing and Beyond -- Urban Literature in Late Qing and Republican China -- Mapping Mainland Cities after 1949 -- Imagining Taipei, Hong Kong, and Beyond -- Selected Bibliography Summary Mapping Modern Beijing investigates five methods of representing Beijing-a warped hometown, a city of snapshots and manners, an aesthetic city, an imperial capital in comparative and cross-cultural perspective, and a displaced city on the Sinophone and diasporic postmemory-by authors travelling across mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and overseas Sinophone and non-Chinese communities Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Chinese literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism Literature Chinese literature SUBJECT Beijing (China) -- In literature Subject China -- Beijing Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780190200688 0190200685 9780190200695 0190200693 9780190458331 019045833X

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