Literary and Cultural (re)productions of a Utopian Island: Performative Geographies of Colonial Shamian, Guangzhou in the Latter Half of the 19th Century

In the second half of the 19th century, Shamian was established and developed as a colonial island enclave in the Chinese city of Guangzhou. Simultaneously, literary and cultural imaginations, depictions, and narrations of the place produced a discourse of Shamian as a utopian island: geographically...

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Main Authors: Tingcong Lin, Ping Su
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Island Studies Journal 2022-11-01
Series:Island Studies Journal
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.24043/isj.379