Lena Scheen is assistant professor/faculty fellow at New York University Shanghai (NYU Shanghai).

"Shanghai Literary Imaginings: A City in Transformation is an admirable feat of organization, analysis, translation, and interpretation, bringing to light a large body of work that would otherwise lie buried, at least in the western world of Chinese studies." -

• INTRODUCTION Writing Shanghai: The City of Feeling Rising out of the City of Fact CHAPTER 1 Mappings: Drawing Mental Maps of Memories CHAPTER 2 Seduction: Reproducing the City as Femme Fatale CHAPTER 3 Nostalgia: Restoring Old Buildings to Rewrite the Past CHAPTER 4 Escape: Out of and Into Various Places 'Real' and Imagined IN CONCLUSION The Shape of a City Changes Faster than the Human Heart Can Tell, Notes, Works Cited, Glossary, Index.