Shanghai Literary Imaginings

"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." - <Andrew David Field in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture "Lena Scheen writes a lucid and compelling account of literature written amidst 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