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 Sha...(展开全部)

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 Sha...(展开全部)

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 Sha...(展开全部)

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 Sha...(展开全部)

For nearly one hundred years, Shanghai was an international treaty port in which the extraterritorial rights of foreign governments shaped both architecture and infrastructure, and it merits examination as one of the most complex and influential urban environments of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Improvised City illuminates the interplay between the city's ...(展开全部)

傅葆石 1955年生于香港，美国斯坦福大学历史学博士，先后任教于斯坦福大学、美国Colgate大学，现为美国伊利诺伊大学历史、电影、法学教授。研究领域包括：现代中国史、香港史、电影史、电影与法学、电影与历史、美国种族史、比较文化等。编著有China Forever: The Shaw Brothers and Diasporic Cinema, The Cinema of Hong Kong: History, Arts, Identity，《双城故事：中国早期电影的文化政治》和《邵氏影视帝国：文化中国的想象》。 张霖 中山大学中文系博士，北京外国语大学中文学院副教授

傅葆石 1955年生于香港，美国斯坦福大学历史学博士，先后任教于斯坦福大学、美国Colgate大学，现为美国伊利诺伊大学历史、电影、法学教授。研究领域包括：现代中国史、香港史、电影史、电影与法学、电影与历史、美国种族史、比较文化等。编著有China Forever: The Shaw Brothers and Diasporic Cinema, The Cinema of Hong Kong: History, Arts, Identity，《双城故事：中国早期电影的文化政治》和《邵氏影视帝国：文化中国的想象》。 张霖 中山大学中文系博士，北京外国语大学中文学院副教授

Prewar Shanghai: casinos, brothels, Green Gang racketeers, narcotics syndicates, gun-runners, underground Communist assassins, Comitern secret agents. Frederic Wakeman's masterful study of the most colorful and corrupt city in the world at the time provides a panoramic view of the confrontation and collaboration between the Nationalist secret police and the Shanghai underworld....(展开全部)