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"I have lived in Beijing for thirty years, but I can't say that I have yet comprehended this city," wrote Lao Xiang, the great Chinese novelist, in 1935. Mapping Modern Beijing explores the various ways novelists sought to understand and articulate China's second largest city in the first half of twentieth century. Song investigates five modes of representing Beijing: as 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. Drawing from literary canons to exotic narratives, from modernist poetry to chivalric fantasy, from popular culture to urban planning, this book explores the complex nexus of urban spaces, archives of emotions, and literary topography of Beijing in its long journey from imperial capital to Republican city and to socialist metropolis. While most English-language literary studies of China focus on its rural locales, Song's study presents a welcome departure, expanding our understandings of Chinese literature into the urban and the modern.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Affective Mapping of Modern Beijing
Articulating Beijing in My Heart
Emotion, Qing, and Chinese Urban Narrative
Five Methods of Imagining Beijing
Chapter 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- Mourning
Chapter 2: Urban Snapshots and Manners: Zhang Henshui and the Beijing Dream
Curiosity, Novelty, and the Ghost House
The City and Its Family Romance
An Unofficial History of Emotions
Chapter 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
Chapter 4: A Comparative Imperial Capital: Lin Yutang, Princess Der Ling, Victor Segalen, and the Views from Near and Afar
An Ideal- Type City and the Performance of Pleasure
The Twilight of Empire and the Disclosure of the Forbidden City
Beneath the "Great Within," Horizontal Wells, and Spatial Exoticism
Chapter 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
Index
