%0 Journal Article
%T (Re-)Reading Shanghai¡¯s Futures in Ruins: Through the Legend of an (Extra-)Ordinary Woman in The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai
%A Ian Ho-yin Fong
%J Culture Unbound : Journal of Current Cultural Research
%D 2012
%I 
%X This essay is an allegorical reading of Shanghai futures through a fictive woman, Wang Qiyao, in Wang Anyi¡¯s novel, The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai (1996). The novel is about her life in China from the 1940s to the 1980s. Using Benjamin¡¯s critique of 19th century Paris in relation to Shanghai in the 1930s and 1940s (¡°the Paris of the Orient¡±) the essay examines questions of phantasmagoria, nostalgia, memory and awakening and relates these to the possible Shanghai futures to come.
%K Longtang
%K Walter Benjamin
%K phantasmagoria
%K allegory
%K nostalgia
%K ordinariness
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/cu.2000.1525.124248