How Long to Read The Lure of the Modern

How Long Does it Take to Read The Lure of the Modern?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 30 minutes to read The Lure of the Modern by Shu-mei Shih

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Shu-mei Shih's study is the first book in English to offer a comprehensive account of Chinese literary modernism from Republican China. In The Lure of the Modern, Shih argues for the contextualization of Chinese modernism in the semicolonial cultural and political formation of the time. Engaging critically with theories of modernism, postcoloniality, and global and local cultural studies, Shih analyzes pivotal issues—such as psychoanalysis, decadence, Orientalism, Occidentalism, semicolonial subjectivity, cosmopolitanism, and urbanism—that were mediated by Japanese as well as Western...

How long is The Lure of the Modern?

The Lure of the Modern by Shu-mei Shih is 450 pages long, and a total of 112,500 words.

This makes it 152% the length of the average book. It also has 137% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Lure of the Modern Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 14 minutes to read The Lure of the Modern aloud.

What Reading Level is The Lure of the Modern?

The Lure of the Modern is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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