One man talking : selected essays of Shao Xunmei, 1929–1939  One Man Talking: Selected Essays of Shao Xunmei, 1929-1939 

• Product Details

  Product #

  2574762B

  Author(s)

  Bevan, Paul

  City

  Hong Kong 

  Country

  Hong Kong 

  Language

  English 

  ISBN

  9789629376604 

  Date of Publication

  2023 

  Publisher

  Xianggang cheng shi da xue chu ban she  

  Cover Type

  Soft cover 

  Pages

  426 

  Subject

  History, 20th-21st Centuries

  Subject

  Literature

   

• Product Details in Original Language

  Author

  Bevan, Paul

  Publisher

  香港城市大學出版社  

• Description

  One Man Talking: Selected Essays of Shao Xunmei, 1929-1939 Hao Xunmei, poet, essayist, publisher, and printer, played a significant role in the publication and dissemination of journals and pictorial magazines in Shanghai during the 1920s and 1930s. His poetry has been translated by several prominent scholars through the years, but remarkably few of his essays have received the same attention, and this is the first collection of his prose writings to be published in English. Shao has been described by a phalanx of scholars as the most seriously underestimated modern cultural Chinese figure. This collection of his writings joins several recent publications that aim to raise Shao’s literary and historical profile. It will appeal to a broad swathe of readers interested in the transnational and transcultural dimensions of twentieth-century experience that have become so important for contemporary scholarship. The essays in this book, some of which were selected by the writer’s daughter, Shao Xiaohong, include long essays such as “One Man Talking” and “A Year in Shanghai” as well as several shorter essays on subjects as diverse as the caricatures of Miguel Covarrubias, woodblock printing, and pictorial magazines — all of which were published in Shao’s own magazines. Although his essays may be less well known than those of other writers of the same period, without his unique and valuable contribution, the literary, artistic, and poetic worlds of twentieth-century Shanghai would have been very different indeed.