In the Mood for Texture

“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