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Most people suppose that the whole world knows what it is to love; that romantic love is universal, quintessentially human. Such a supposition has to be able to meet three challenges. It has to justif

．以圖文並茂的方式介紹上海二三十年代如何受西方現代主義的影響而形成海派風格：即中西合璧及商業味．涉及範圍包括：繪畫、平面設計、漫畫、月份牌畫家、建築及室內設計．作者既有學者的研究工夫，又有記者說故事的能力．充滿個性的文筆及超過300幅彩色插圖，叫人賞心悅目．作者曾以英文寫作過十多本書，十分熟悉西方讀者的閱讀習慣，而且有一定知名度

Most people suppose that the whole world knows what it is to love; that romantic love is universal, quintessentially human. Such a supposition has to be able to meet three challenges. It has to justify its underlying assumption that all cultures mean the same thing by the word ‘love’ regardless of language. It has to engage with the scholarly debate on whether or not romantic love was invented in Europe and is uniquely Western. And it must be able to explain why early twentieth-century Chinese writers claimed that they had never known true love, or love by modern Western standards. By addressing these three challenges through a literary, historical, philosophical, biographical and above all comparative approach, this highly original work shows how love’s profile in China shifted with the rejection of arranged marriages and concubinage in favour of free individual choice, monogamy and a Western model of romantic love. 名人推薦 ‘This book, Lynn Pan’s best to date, adds a wonderful new