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Shadow Modernism - Photography, Writing, and Space in Shanghai, 1925-1937 (Paperback)
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Shadow Modernism - Photography, Writing, and Space in Shanghai, 1925-1937 (Paperback)
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During the early twentieth century, Shanghai was the center of
China's new media culture. Described by the modernist writer Mu
Shiying as "transplanted from Europe" and "paved with shadows," for
many of its residents Shanghai was a city without a past
paradoxically haunted by the absent past's traces. In Shadow
Modernism William Schaefer traces how photographic practices in
Shanghai provided a forum within which to debate culture,
ethnicity, history, and the very nature of images. The central
modernist form in China, photography was neither understood nor
practiced as primarily a medium for realist representation; rather,
photo layouts, shadow photography, and photomontage rearranged and
recomposed time and space, cutting apart and stitching places,
people, and periods together in novel and surreal ways. Analyzing
unknown and overlooked photographs, photomontages, cartoons,
paintings, and experimental fiction and poetry, Schaefer shows how
artists and writers used such fragmentation and juxtaposition to
make visible the shadows of modernity in Shanghai: the violence,
the past, the ethnic and cultural multiplicity excluded and
repressed by the prevailing cultural politics of the era and yet
hidden in plain sight.
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