Mediasphere Shanghai: The Aesthetics of Cultural Production
Mediasphere Shanghai: The Aesthetics of Cultural Production
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上海媒体圈：文化生产的美学
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2007
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Alexander des Forges
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对许多西方人来说，“上海”是东亚现代性的精髓，无论是想象中的迷人而令人兴奋，腐败而令人厌恶，还是好、坏、丑的复杂综合体。“上海”是如何获得这种力量的？中国和世界各地的人们是如何决定上海是一个值得去的地方的？《上海媒体圈》表明，这些问题的部分答案可以在上海媒体产业的产品中找到，特别是上海小说，这是一种独特的分期小说类型，繁荣于19世纪90年代至20世纪30年代。上海小说不仅提供了我们现在认为典型的城市意象，而且更重要的是，提供了城市作为一个商业和娱乐中心的体验，以及作为一个全国性和跨国性的媒体圈的焦点的形式--虚拟性、中断性、中介性和过度性。现有的上海文化范式倾向于将这座城市独特的文学和视觉美学解释为经济条件和社会进程的可预测结果，但亚历山大·德·福格斯坚持认为，文学文本和其他文化产品本身构成了城市的概念基础，并构建了感知城市的框架。从广泛的来源，包括分期小说，照片，平版插图，地图，旅游指南，报纸和电影工作，德福格斯证明了美学形式和实践的重大社会影响。“上海媒体圈”为我们提供了一个新的视角来了解这座城市的文化历史，以及现代中国的文学和文化。
For many in the west, "Shanghai" is the quintessence of East Asian modernity, whether imagined as glamorous and exciting, corrupt and impoverishing, or a complex synthesis of the good, the bad, and the ugly. How did "Shanghai" acquire this power? How did people across China and around the world decide that Shanghai was the place to be? "Mediasphere Shanghai" shows that partial answers to these questions can be found in the products of Shanghai's media industry, particularly the Shanghai novel, a distinctive genre of installment fiction that flourished from the 1890s to the 1930s. Shanghai fiction supplies not only the imagery that we now consider typical of the city, but, more significantly, the very forms - simultaneity, interruption, mediation, and excess - through which the city could be experienced as a business and entertainment center and envisioned as the focal point of a mediasphere with a national and transnational reach. Existing paradigms of Shanghai culture tend to explain the city's distinctive literary and visual aesthetics as merely the predictable result of economic conditions and social processes, but Alexander Des Forges maintains that literary texts and other cultural products themselves constitute a conceptual foundation for the city and construct the frame through which it is perceived. Working from a wide range of sources, including installment fiction, photographs, lithographic illustrations, maps, guidebooks, newspapers, and film, Des Forges demonstrates the significant social effects of aesthetic forms and practices. "Mediasphere Shanghai" offers a new perspective on the cultural history of the city and on the literature and culture of modern China in general.