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A 10 page book review that profiles this text. In the preface to his book Shanghai Modern, author Leo Ou-Fan Lee summarizes his text concisely in one sentence: "This is a book about the city of Shanghai in the 1930s as a cultural matrix of Chinese modernity" (Lee xi). Unlike many Western scholars who have written about Shanghai, Lee offers an "insider's point of view" by looking primarily at Chinese material, that is, "literary journals, newspapers as well as works by individual authors and scholars" in order to construct a "picture of Shanghai's urban culture at the height of its splendor" (Lee xi). Examination of this text shows that Lee succeeded admirably in his goal, as the reader acquires from Lee a nuanced, multi-level perspective on Shanghai culture during this period. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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in the 1930s as a cultural matrix of Chinese modernity" (Lee xi). Unlike many Western scholars who have written about Shanghai, Lee offers an "insiders point of view" by
looking primarily at Chinese material, that is, "literary journals, newspapers as well as works by individual authors and scholars" in order to construct a "picture of Shanghais urban culture at
the height of its splendor" (Lee xi). Examination of this text shows that Lee succeeded admirably in his goal, as the reader acquires from Lee a nuanced, multi-level perspective on
Shanghai culture during this period. The reader does not have to delve far into the text before coming upon the first of many references to the "May Fourth Movement"
(Lee 41). While this is obviously an important point, Lee assumes that the reader is familiar with the background to this phrase. Since this writer/tutor had no idea what this
refers to, hopefully, the student researching this topic will not mind that an Internet source was consulted for enlightenment. The May Fourth Movement or "new culture" movement began in China
around 1916 and followed the failure of the 1911 Revolution to establish a republican government (May Fourth Movement). Its significance, according to this source, equals or surpasses the more widely
known political revolutions of this century. The movements principal focus was disdain for traditional Chinese culture, which was a sentiment shared by many Chinese intellectuals who blamed traditional culture for
fall of China from a powerful nation to one that occupied a subordinate international position. They maintained that it was traditional Chinese cultural values that prevented China from competing with
the industrial and military development in Japan and the West (May Fourth Movement). This movement called for a new nationalism based on a new culture that adopted Western notions of
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