abstract: This article discusses different accounts of Shanghai Modern, the period between 1920s and 1940s in which the city occupied a unique position within China and the world.It places discussions of this period in the context of the resurgence of urban led modernization in China, led by Shanghai.It looks in particular at Leo Ou-Fan Lee's attempt to link the cosmopolitanism of Shanghai modern with prospects for this new post-reform China.I then discuss Ackbas Abbas' response to this book and use this 
journal: Culture Unbound Journal of Current Cultural Research