"Shanghai Literary Imaginings: A City in Transformation is an admirable feat of organization, analysis, translation, and interpretation, bringing to light a large body of work that would otherwise lie buried, at least in the western world of Chinese studies." - ... Read moreamidst Shanghai's sweeping transformations from 1990-2010. She evokes lived experiences of the city via literary and cultural analysis informed by field research on influential authors, their texts and their public reception. Shanghai: Literary Imaginings is essential reading on turn-of-the-millennium Shanghai literary culture."
Robin Visser, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "Shanghai Literary Imaginings offers significant new insights into contemporary Chinese urban culture from a highly innovative methodological perspective. Its truly interdisciplinary approach makes Shanghai Literary Imaginings stand out from other books that comment on contemporary Chinese city life."
Michel Hockx, Director SOAS China Institute, London Show Less