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[ecrea] "Shanghai Modern" - New thematic section from Culture Unbound

Tue Jan 31 15:18:25 GMT 2012




New thematic section from Culture Unbound: "Shanghai Modern: The Future in =
Microcosm?"

http://www.cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/current-volume.html



Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research has published a new t=
hematic section entitled "Shanghai Modern: The Future in Microcosm?" It is =
edited by Justin O'Connor and Xin Gu and consist of ten articles that give =
a wide range of perspectives on Shanghai's role as a cultural and commercia=
l centre in the past and present. The global city of Shanghai is taken as a=
 starting point to explore issues of urban space, social and political chan=
ge, modernity and the Chinese transition in the 20th and 21st century.

Featured articles are:


Justin O'Connor, Shanghai Modern: Replaying Futures Past
Owen Hatherley, The Hyperstationary State: Five Walks in Search of the Futu=
re in Shanghai
Anna Greenspan, The Power of Spectacle
Hongwei Bao,Queering/ Querying Cosmopolitanism: Queer Spaces in Shanghai
L=FC Pan, The Invisible Turn to the Future: Commemorative Culture in Contem=
porary Shanghai
Ma Ran, Celebrating the International, Disremembering Shanghai: The Curious=
 Case of the Shanghai International Film Festival
Sheng Zhong, Production, Creative Firms and Urban Space in Shanghai
Xin Gu, The Art of Re-Industrialisation in Shanghai
Haili Ma, Yueju - the Formation of a Legitimate Culture in Contemporary Sha=
nghai
Ian Ho-yin Fong, (Re-)Reading Shanghai's Futures in Ruins: Through the Lege=
nd of an (Extra-)Ordinary Woman in The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel =
of Shanghai



You can access all articles for free at:

http://www.cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/current-volume.html



Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural research is an open access e-j=
ournal that seeks to be a forum for contemporary, cutting edge cultural res=
earch from a wide range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary areas. We als=
o welcome new article manuscripts in all areas of cultural research, as wel=
l as proposals for future theme sections.

Martin Fredriksson
Executive Editor
Culture Unbound
(Martin.fredriksson /at/ liu.se)<mailto:(Martin.fredriksson /at/ liu.se)>


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