Andrew David Field is Director of Shanghai Programs for Boston University. He is the author of Shanghai's Dancing World: Cabaret Culture and Urban Politics, 1919-1954 (Chinese University Press, 2010).

Better than that of any other writer, Mu Shiying's fiction encapsulates the cosmopolitan life of 1930s Shanghai (with its foreign concessions, cinemas, cafes and cabarets) that underlay modernist Chinese writing. Andrew Field's book is exciting not only because it is a new appreciation of this writer but because, through its translations of Mu's stories, it reveals the extent to which Shanghai-based writing was inspired by the styles of international modernism. -- Lynn Pan, author of Shanghai Style and Old Shanghai: Gangsters in Paradise A much-needed volume that will help considerably in making Mu's writing more widely accessible. -- Christopher Rosenmeier H-Asia

Andrew David Field is Director of Shanghai Programs for Boston University. He is the author of Shanghai's Dancing World: Cabaret Culture and Urban Politics, 1919-1954 (Chinese University Press, 2010).

Better than that of any other writer, Mu Shiying's fiction encapsulates the cosmopolitan life of 1930s Shanghai (with its foreign concessions, cinemas, cafes and cabarets) that underlay modernist Chinese writing. Andrew Field's book is exciting not only because it is a new appreciation of this writer but because, through its translations of Mu's stories, it reveals the extent to which Shanghai-based writing was inspired by the styles of international modernism. -- Lynn Pan, author of Shanghai Style and Old Shanghai: Gangsters in Paradise A much-needed volume that will help considerably in making Mu's writing more widely accessible. -- Christopher Rosenmeier H-Asia

Andrew David Field is Director of Shanghai Programs for Boston University. He is the author of Shanghai's Dancing World: Cabaret Culture and Urban Politics, 1919-1954 (Chinese University Press, 2010).

Better than that of any other writer, Mu Shiying's fiction encapsulates the cosmopolitan life of 1930s Shanghai (with its foreign concessions, cinemas, cafes and cabarets) that underlay modernist Chinese writing. Andrew Field's book is exciting not only because it is a new appreciation of this writer but because, through its translations of Mu's stories, it reveals the extent to which Shanghai-based writing was inspired by the styles of international modernism. -- Lynn Pan, author of Shanghai Style and Old Shanghai: Gangsters in Paradise A much-needed volume that will help considerably in making Mu's writing more widely accessible. -- Christopher Rosenmeier H-Asia