In the Mood for Texture

Arnika Fuhrmann is Professor of Asian Studies and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. She is the author of Teardrops of Time: Buddhist Aesthetics in the Poetry of Angkarn Kallayanapong as well as Ghostly Desires: Queer Sexuality and Vernacular Buddhism in Contemporary Thai Cinema, which was published by Duke University Press.

Acknowledgments vii Introduction. The Revival of Bangkok as a Chinese City 1 I. In the Mood for Texture 1. City Connectivities 2. In the Mood for Texture: Transmedia Revivals of Hong Kong's, Bangkok's, and Shanghai's Chinese Pasts and Colonial Modernities II. Bangkok: Originary Chinese City 3. Bangkok: Chinese City of Colonial Modernity 4. How to Dump: Radical Revitalization in Thai Cinema and Hospitality Venues III. Thinking Region from Southeast Asia 5. Memories of the Memories of the Black Rose Cat: Thai Literature as Contemporary Chinese Literature 6. Southeast Asia as Question: Thinking Region from Bangkok Coda. Women in Asia and the World Notes Bibliography Index

"Grounded by Wong Kar-wai's 2000 film, Fuhrmann explores the linkages between Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Bangkok. This expansive study considers the different ways movies, social media, literary texts, and architecture engage in Chinese revivalism to create a site of fantasy that makes possible a variety of spatial-temporal experiments.In the Mood for Texture is an outstanding, tour-de-force of investigation into Chinese Thai history and visual culture."-Nguyen Tan Hoang, author of, A View from the Bottom: Asian American Masculinity and Sexual Representation "A book of stunning originality and eloquence that advances a radical reimaging of region, diaspora, and the postcolonial. In the Mood for Texture is a uniquely structured study that is ambitious in scope. It is a study of Chinese colonial modernity that breaks free of geographical limitations and national boundaries. Fuhrmann brings into focus a textured aesthetics of Chinese colonial modernity-in all its sumptuous detail and affective vibrancy."-Jean Ma, author of, Sounding the Modern Woman: The Songstress in Chinese Cinema