Urban Scenes by Na'ou Liu Paperback Book

Description: Urban Scenes by Na'ou Liu, Yaohua Shi, Judith M. Amory Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Description This collection is especially valuable since there are no more works from Liu because shortly after producing this he was murdered purportedly for political reasons. Publisher Description More than eighty years after his death, Liu Naou (1905-1940) remains a fascinating figure. Liu was born in Taiwan, but early on he wrote that his future lay in Shanghai and did indeed spend the entirety of his glittering but all-too-brief career in his adopted city, working closely with a small coterie of like-minded friends and associates as an editor, writer, film critic, scenarist, and director. Liu introduced Japanese Shinkankakuha (New Sensationism) to China and made it an important school of modern Chinese urban fiction. Urban Scenes, his slim volume of modernist fiction, in particular, has had an outsized influence on Shanghais image as a phantasmagoric metropolis in the 1920s and 1930s. This collection is especially valuable since there are no more works from Liu because shortly after producing this he was murdered purportedly for political reasons.Like Japanese New Sensationists, who zeroed in on sensory responses to the new technologies rapidly transforming Tokyo after the Great Earthquake of 1923, Liu was fixated on the sights, sounds, and smells of Shanghai, that other throbbing metropolis of the Far East, and these came through in his writings. Lius urban romances depict, as he himself put it, the "thrill" and "carnal intoxication" of modern urban life. His stories take place in Shanghais nightclubs, race tracks, cinemas, and cafes-sites of moral depredation but also of erotic allure and excitement; therein lies the contradictory nature of his urban fiction, which gives us a vivid picture of early twentieth-century Shanghai.This complete translation of Lius seminal work is available for the first time to researchers, students, and general readers interested in modern Chinese literature and culture. In addition to the eight stories in the original Urban Scenes, this collection includes an introduction by the translators and three additional pieces Liu published separately. The translations are based on the first editions of the Chinese texts. Urban Scenes is a valuable addition to collections in Chinese and Sinophone studies.This book is part of the Cambria Sinophone Translation Series (General Editor: Kyle Shernuk, Georgetown Univerity; Advisor: Christopher Lupke, University of Alberta). Author Biography Liu Naou (1905-1940) was an editor, writer, film critic, scenarist, and director who introduced Japanese Shinkankakuha (New Sensationism) to China and made it an important school of modern Chinese urban fiction. His writings-Urban Scenes, his slim volume of modernist fiction, in particular-have had an outsized influence on Shanghais image as a phantasmagoric metropolis in the 1920s and 1930s, and his name has become part of the citys twentieth-century history. Lius life was cut short when he was murdered by unknown assailants, purportedly for political reasons. Yaohua Shi is Associate Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Wake Forest University. He holds a PhD from Indiana University, and his previous publications include the Chinese-language textbook series Integrated Chinese. Judith Amory graduated from Radcliffe College and pursued doctoral studies in Russian literature at Columbia University. Since retiring from the Harvard University Library, she has catalogued Chinese language materials for the New York Public Library and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Details ISBN 1638571872 ISBN-13 9781638571872 Title Urban Scenes Author Naou Liu, Yaohua Shi, Judith M. Amory Format Paperback Year 2023 Pages 148 Publisher Cambria Press GE_Item_ID:151729549; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. 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