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Description
In Intoxicating Shanghai, Paul Bevan explores the work of a number of Chinese modernist figures in the fields of literature and the visual arts, with an emphasis on the literary group the New-sensationists and its equivalents in the Shanghai art world, examining the work of these figures as it appeared in pictorial magazines. It undertakes a detailed examination into the significance of the pictorial magazine as a medium for the dissemination of literature and art during the 1930s. The research locates the work of these artists and writers within the context of wider literary and art production in Shanghai, focusing on art, literature, cinema, music, and dance hall culture, with a specific emphasis on 1934 - 'The Year of the Magazine'.
About the Author
Paul Bevan, Christensen Fellow at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (2018-2020), has taught modern Chinese literature, art, and history at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge and London. His first book, A Modern Miscellany, was published by Brill in 2015.
