Jinhua Dai

After the Post-Cold War

The Future of Chinese History

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Produktbeschreibung

In After the Post-Cold War eminent Chinese cultural critic Dai Jinhua interrogates history, memory, and the future of China as a global economic power in relation to its socialist past, profoundly shaped by the Cold War. Drawing on Marxism, post-structuralism, psychoanalysis, and feminist theory, Dai examines recent Chinese films that erase the country's socialist history to show how such erasure resignifies socialism's past as failure and thus forecloses the imagining of a future beyond that of globalized capitalism. She outlines the tension between China's embrace of the free market and a regime dependent on a socialist imprimatur. She also offers a genealogy of China's transformation from a source of revolutionary power into a fountainhead of globalized modernity. This narrative, Dai contends, leaves little hope of moving from the capitalist degradation of the present into a radical future that might offer a more socially just world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 332g
• ISBN-13: 9781478000518
• ISBN-10: 1478000511
• Artikelnr.: 52524471

Autorenporträt

Dai Jinhua

Inhaltsangabe

Series Editor's Preface / Carlos Rojas  vii
Acknowledgments  xi
Editor's Introduction / Lisa Rofel  xiii
Introduction / Translated by Jie Li  1
Part I. Trauma, Evacuated Memories, and Inverted Histories
1. I Want to Be Human: A Story of China and the Human / Translated by
Shuang Shen  25
2. Hero and the Invisible Tianxia / Translated by Yajun Mo  47
Part II. Class, Still Lives, and Masculinity
3. Temporality, Nature Morte, and the Filmmaker: A Reconsideration of
Still Life / Translated by Lennet Daigle  67
4. The Piano in a Factory: Class, in the Name of the Father / Translated by
Jie Li  91
Part III. The Spy Genre
5. The Spy-Film Legacy: A Preliminary Cultural Analysis of the Spy Film /
Translated by Christopher Connery  109
6. In Vogue: Politics and the Nation-State in Lust, Caution, and the Lust,
Caution Phenomenon in China / Translated by Erebus Wong and Lisa Rofel  127
Finale. History, Memory, and the Politics of Representation / Translated by
Rebecca E. Karl  141
Interview with Dai Jinhau, July 2014 / Lisa Rofel  160
Notes  167
Selected Works of Dai Jinhua  181
Bibliography  183
Translators' Biographies  189
Index  191