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Shanghai: A Novel by Yokomitsu Riichi Volume 33
Contributor(s): Yokomitsu, Riichi (Author), Washburn, Dennis (Translator)

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 ISBN: 1929280017     ISBN-13: 9781929280018
Publisher: U of M Center for Japanese Studies
OUR PRICE: $23.10  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: June 2001
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Drama | Asian - General
- Literary Criticism | Asian - General
Dewey: 895.634
LCCN: 2001017281
Series: Michigan Monograph Japanese Studies
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.04" W x 9.04" L (0.76 lbs) 248 pages
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 04/30/2001 pg. 58
 
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Published serially between 1928 and 1931, Shanghai tells the story of a group of Japanese expatriates living in the International Settlement at the time of the May 30th Incident of 1925. The personal lives and desires of the main characters play out against a historical backdrop of labor unrest, factional intrigue, colonialist ambitions, and racial politics.

The author, Yokomitsu Riichi (1898-1947), was an essayist, writer, and critical theorist who became one of the most powerful and influential literary figures in Japan during the 1920s and 1930s. He looked to contemporary avant-garde movements in Europe -- Dadaism, futurism, surrealism, expressionism -- for inspiration in his effort to explode the conventions of literary language and to break free of what he saw as the prisonhouse of modern culture.

Yokomitsu incorporated striking visuality into a realistic mode that presents a disturbing picture of a city in turmoil. The result is a brilliant evocation of Shanghai as a gritty ideological battleground and as an exotic landscape where dreams of sexual and economic domination are nurtured.
 
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