Mediasphere Shanghai: The Aesthetics of Cultural Production

by Alexander Des Forges

For many in the west, "Shanghai" is the quintessence of East Asian modernity, whether imagined as glamorous and exciting, corrupt and impoverishing, or a complex synthesis of the good, the bad, and the ugly. How did "Shanghai" acquire this power? How did people across China and around the world decide that Shanghai was the place to be?

Mediasphere Shanghai shows that partial answers to these questions can be found in the products of Shanghai's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824830814
• ISBN13: 9780824830816
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.0"