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Shanghai's Dancing World: Cabaret Culture and Urban Politics, 1919-1954

作者: Andrew David Field
出版社/メーカー: Chinese Univ Pr
発売日: 2010/08/30
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Andrew David Field Shanghai’s Dancing World: Cabaret Culture and Urban Politics, 1919-1954*1からメモ。
Mu Shiying（穆時英）について（p.4ff.）。特にヴァルター・ベンヤミンとの対比；

(…) At the same time that Benjamin was working on his unfinished magnum opus, which remained buried in the Paris National Library, only to be published decades later as a set of quotations and reflections, a Chinese writer named Mu Shiying (1912-1940) was developing somewhat similar notion of the phantasmagoric nature of urban modernity, drawing upon his own experiences in Shanghai, particularly in the city’s dance hall and nightclubs.
The lives and careers of Benjamin and Mu seem to run on oddly parallel tracks. Both men lived as erudite urban intellectuals, whose careers ran outside of the normal academic confines. Both became keenly interested in Marxism in an era when the gap between the haves and have-nots in modern mass industrial societies steadly grew wider and wider, and the connections between powerful, war-making states and business conglomerates appeared more and more clearly. Modern European literature fascinated both and Freudian psychology deeply interested each of them. Both men wrote penetrating observations about modern city life, publishing their writings in the leading contemporary journals of their age.
While Benjamin chose the essay and aphorism as his preferred method of exegesis, Mu favored short fiction. Benjamin’s powerful insights into the phantasmagorical nature of modern urban life find parallels in the writings of Mu Shiying, particularly his seminal short story, “Shanghai Foxtrot”(Shanghai de hubuwu*2 ), an unfinished project, like Benjamin’s Arcade Project. Originally Mu had intended to write a full-length novel entitled “China 1931”(Zhongguo yi-jiu-san-yi) but he eventually opted for a short story instead. Both men died on 1940, victim of the traumatic age in which they lived, wrote, and reflected on the human condition. While Benjamin took his own life that September after failing to cross the border between France and Spain in a desperate attempt to escape Nazi-dominated Europe, Mu, who had agreed to serve as editor for a pro-Japanese newspaper in Shanghai, was assassinated in June while riding in a rickshaw. Today Mu’s death still continued to generate controversy—nobody knows for sure whether he was assassinated by pro-Chinese nationalists for his collaboration with the Japanese, or whether he was in fact a double agent, discovered and killed by pro-Japanese terrorists. (pp.4-5)

Field氏は穆時英関連の英語の文献として、

MacDonald, Sean “The Shanghai Foxtrot(A Fragment) by Mu Shiying” Modernism/modernity 11-4, pp.190-216, 2002
Lee, Leo Ou-fan（李欧梵）*3 Shanghai Modern: The Flowering of a New Urban Culture in China, 1930-1945 Harvard University Press, 1999
Zhang, Yinjin The City in Modern Chinese Literature and Film: Configurations of Space, Time, and Gender, Stanford University Press, 1996

を挙げている（Note, 14, 15, p.310）。
また、

http://baike.baidu.com/view/477652.htm
河西「［伝奇］色・戒・穆時英」http://www.weeklysh.com/News/ArticleShow.aspx?ArticleID=6473
中村みどり「都市上海の中の「東洋」幻想−−穆時英「PIERROT」論」『Waseda Global Forum』3、pp.59-70、2006 http://dspace.wul.waseda.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2065/11340/1/09NakamuraMidori.pdf

を取り敢えずマーク。
石計生氏の『閲読魅影』*4はベンヤミンを多く援用した本だが、穆時英への言及はなかったように思う。
穆時英が影響を受けたとされる日本の新感覚派、横光利一には『上海』という小説あり。