RAS 2013 October Newsletter - Royal Asiatic Society in Shanghai

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Royal Asiatic Society China - Newsletter Vol 4 No 9 – October 2013DiscoveriesPeer Reviewed Research ArticlesRon Suleski - Collecting Research Materials in Shanghai: A Qing Dynasty Astrologer’s Predictions for theFutureSelected EssaysLindsay Shen - Finding Eliza in the Bibliotheca ZikaweiTess Johnston - Managing Cinemas in Old ShanghaiSarah Keenlyside - The Story of the SketchbookPlacesPeer Reviewed Research ArticlesEric Politzer - The Early Hotels of the Shanghai Foreign SettlementPaul French - Gypsies of Shanghai: the Roma Community of Late 1930s and 1940s Shanghai and theirRole in the City's Entertainment IndustrySelected EssaysJeffrey Wasserstrom - A Brief History of Shanghai’s FutureKatya Knyazeva - The Seven Ages of Dongjiadu: Urban Form in Shanghai’s Old DocksMichelle Blumenthal - Yangpu: Past, Present and Future: The Engine of ShanghaiPeter Hibbard - A New Course in HistoryM A Aldrich - Fox Spirits, Gate Towers and Old PekingBill Savadove - Chasing Ghosts in Old TianjinGary Jones - The North Korea Mass GamesSam Chambers, with photographs by André Eichman - The Trading Melting Pot of KashgarBook ReviewsEileen Chang: Romancing Languages, Cultures and Genres, ed. Kam Louie reviewed by Karen S. KingsburyDictionary of Hong Kong Biography, eds. May Holdsworth and Christopher Munn, reviewed by Frances WoodDécadence Mandchoue: The China Memoirs of Sir Edmund Trelawny Backhouse, ed. Derek Sandhausreviewed by Paul FrenchQian Qianyi’s Reflections of Yellow Mountain: Traces of a Late-Ming Hatchet and Chisel by Stephen McDowellreviewed by Tamara H. BentleyLao She in London by Anne Witchard reviewed by Jo LusbyFlorence Ayscough: Knowledge is Pleasure by Lindsay Shen reviewed by Sue Anne TayWriting in(to) Architecture: China’s Architectural Design and Construction Since 1949 by Sylvia Chanreviewed by Austin WilliamsMidnight in Peking – How the murder of a young Englishwoman haunted the last days of Old China by Paul Frenchreviewed by Alex SparksShanghai Fury: Australian Heroes of Revolutionary China by Peter Thompson reviewed by Liu WeiThe Scramble for China: Foreign Devils in the Qing Empire, 1832-1914 by Robert Bickersreviewed by Derek SandhausOver There: The Pictorial Chronicle of the Chinese Labour Corps in the Great War by the Weihai MunicipalArchives reviewed by Alex SparksReluctant Regulators: How the West Created and How China Survived the Global Financial Crisis by Leo F.Goodstadt reviewed by Frank MulliganStructure, Audience and Soft Power in East Asian Pop Culture by Chua Beng Huat reviewed by William F. SmithBeijing Record: A Physical and Political History of Planning Modern Beijing by Wang Junreviewed by Jeremy GoldkornChinatowns in a Transnational World, Myths and Realities of an Urban Phenomenon, eds. Venessa Künnemann andRuth Mayer reviewed by Cindy Hing-Yuk WongChina’s Vanishing Worlds: Countryside, Traditions and Cultural Spaces by Matthias Messmer and Hsin-Mei Chuangreviewed by Neale McGoldrickEurope and China: Strategic Partners of Rivals? ed. Roland Vogt reviewed by Austin Williams12
13RAS China Monograph Series 3COMING 2014Mu ShiyingChina's Lost Modernist: NewTranslations and an AppreciationAndrew David FieldWhen the avant-garde writer Mu Shiying wasassassinated in 1940, China lost one of its greatestmodernist writers while Shanghai lost its mostdetailed chronicler of its demi-monde nightlife. AsAndrew David Field argues, Mu Shiying advancedmodern Chinese writing beyond the vernacularexpression of May 4 giants Lu Xun and Lao She toeven more starkly reveal the alienation of thecosmopolitan-capitalist city of Shanghai, trappedbetween the forces of civilization and barbarism.Each of these five short stories focuses on the author's key obsessions: the pleasurable yetanxiety-ridden social and sexual relationships of the modern city and the decadentmaelstrom of consumption and leisure in Shanghai epitomized by the dance hall and thenightclub. This study places his writings squarely within the framework of Shanghai's socialand cultural nightscapes."Better than that of any other writer, Mu Shiying's fiction encapsulates the cosmopolitan lifeof 1930s Shanghai (with its foreign concessions, cinemas, cafes and cabarets) thatunderlay modernist Chinese writing. Andrew Field's book is exciting not only because it is anew appreciation of this writer but because, through its translations of Mu's stories, itreveals the extent to which Shanghai-based writing was inspired by the styles ofinternational modernism." - Lynn Pan, author of Shanghai Style and Old Shanghai:Gangsters in Paradise.Biography / LiteraryFORTHCOMING 2014160 pp., 7” x 5”,PB ISBN 978-9888208142Price TBACOPIES WILL BE AVAILBLE AT RAS EVENTS13
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