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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