| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.2

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Shu-mei Shih. The Lure of the Modern: Writing Modernism in Semicolonial China, 1917–1937. (Berkeley Series in Interdisciplinary Studies in China, number 1.) Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 2001. Pp. xiii, 427. $24.95.

Literary critics and historians in and outside China have published numerous works on literature and writers of Republican China. Using many of these works as secondary sources and extensively examining primary sources in Chinese, Japanese, and English, Shu-mei Shih presents the first comprehensive study of the development of Chinese literary modernism. More than a commendable effort to construct a history of a literary movement that has long been dismissed by Eurocentricism, Sinological nativism, and the political nativism of the Chinese Communist Party, the author also problematizes Chinese modernism while investigating it as an important site of Chinese intellectuals' negotiation with Western knowledge in their pursuit of modernity. Shih locates this investigation in the changing cultural and political terrain of Republican China from 1917 to 1937 and offers a persuasive and illuminating historical account of the complex cultural production in the context of semicolonialism. . . .

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