20 世纪 30 年代，上海作为一座城市，何以能够生出一场幻梦？与此同时，这场幻梦映射出怎样的自我与他者，又如何呈现出城市自身的主体性与灵魂？这关系到现代中国尤其是张爱玲等文学家如何想象现代城市并为之构形的过程。以往研究多聚焦张爱玲的小说乃至整个城市文学，“上海”在其中作为客体存在。而张爱玲将上海写“活”了，回归城市的内部，切入城市深层的“底子”，使城市本身演化为一个现代主体，映射出个中人物的焦虑和渴望、匮乏与缺憾，并与之交互，召唤出彼此的创伤性体验与集体无意识。“上海”也于焉具备了身体属性、主体意识，成为一个具有感知和体验功能的存在，其自“身”流溢着精气，寄寓着灵魂，将“现代”文学及其城市想象推向深远。

张爱玲, 上海, 想象, 现代城市

How could Shanghai, as a city, give birth to a dream in the 1930s? At the same time, what kind of self and other does this dream map out? How did it present its own subjectivity and soul? This has to do with how modern China, especially literary figures such as Eileen Chang, imagined and shaped the modern city. Previous studies have focused on Eileen Chang’s novels and even on urban literature as a whole, where “Shanghai” exists as an object, but Eileen Chang writes about Shanghai as a “living” city, where the city itself evolves into a modern subject, mapping the anxieties and desires, the lacks and deficiencies of the characters, and interacting with them to summon up each other’s traumatic experiences and collective unconscious. Shanghai has also acquired its own physical attributes, becoming a being with the functions of perception and experience, with its “body” overflowing with essence and soul, pushing “modern” literature and its urban writing into a deeper and more profound direction.

Eileen Chang, Shanghai, imagination, modern city