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An Analysis of the Construction of Shanghai’s Urban Consumer Public Sphere in the Works of Eileen Chang

Authors
Yirou Gang1, *, Xihan Deng2
1College of Chinese Language and Literature, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
2Foreign Language School, Nankai University, Tianjin, China
*Corresponding author. Email: gyrwhu0321@163.com
Corresponding Author
Yirou Gang
Available Online 13 February 2023.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-494069-97-8_57How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Eileen Chang; City Literature; Public Sphere; Consumerism
Abstract

Throughout the history of Modern Chinese Literature, Eileen Chang is a prominent female. In the 1940s, she observed the cultural form of Shanghai as an urban woman, depicting the daily life and humanity during the city’s prosperity and desolation. Shanghai’s urban culture provides a constant source of nourishment for Eileen Chang’s novels, and Eileen Chang also uses her unique aesthetic perspective to interpret Shanghai. This article takes a text analysis approach from the field of Shanghai’s urban public space to analyze the impact of Shanghai’s urbanization development on Eileen Chang’s own conceptions, selecting cinemas, dance halls, and other consumer places as research objects. It investigates the urban life of Shanghai depicted by Eileen Chang, which both shapes the city’s spatial culture and represents the symbols of consumption in literary creation. Chang’s literary also works embody a quality different from those of enemy-occupied areas.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2022 4th International Conference on Literature, Art and Human Development (ICLAHD 2022)
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Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
13 February 2023
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978-2-494069-97-8
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2352-5398
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© 2023 The Author(s)
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