Hsiao Yen Peng: 1 book
Dandyism and Transcultural Modernity
The Dandy, the Flaneur, and the Translator in 1930s Shanghai, Tokyo, and Paris
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
This book views the Neo-Sensation mode of writing as a traveling genre, or style, that originated in France, moved on to Japan, and then to China. The author contends that modernity is possible only on "the transcultural site"—transcultural in the sense of breaking the divide between past...
