Xudong Zhang

Postsocialism and Cultural Politics

China in the Last Decade of the Twentieth Century

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Produktbeschreibung

A sequel to Zhang's "Chinese Modernism, "it discusses crucial issues in China in the 1990s including nationalism, neo-liberalism, postmodernism, nostalgia, revisionism and the intellectual formulations and cultural politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2008
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 640g
• ISBN-13: 9780822342120
• ISBN-10: 082234212X
• Artikelnr.: 23369379

Autorenporträt

Xudong Zhang

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: The Cultural Politics of Socialism 1
Part I. Intellectual Discourse: National and Global Determinations
1. The Return of the Political: The Making of the Post-Tiananmen
Intellectual Field 25
2. Nationalism, Mass Culture, and Intellectual Strategies in the 1990s 102
3. Postmodernism and Postsocialist Society: Cultural Politics after the
"New Era" 136
Part II. Literary Discourse: Narrative Possibilities of Postsocialism
4. Shanghai Nostalgia: Mourning and Allegory in Wang Anyi's Literary
Production in the 1990s 181
5. Toward a Critical Iconography: Shanghai, "Minor Literature," and the
Unmaking of a Modern Chinese Mythology 212
6. "Demonic Realism" and the "Socialist Market Economy": Language Game,
Natural History, and Social Allegory in Mo Yan's The Republic of Wine 240
Part III. Cinematic Discourse: Universality, Singularity, and the Everyday
World
7. National Trauma, Global Allegory: Construction of Collective Memory in
Tian Zhuangzhuang's The Blue Kite 269
8. Narrative, Culture, and Legitimacy: Repetition and Singularity in Zhang
Yimou's The Story of Qiu Ju 289
Notes 311
Bibliography 331
Index 341