Dai Jinhua Dai

After the Post-Cold War (eBook, PDF)

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: 25. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478002208
• Artikelnr.: 54671026

Autorenporträt

Dai Jinhua is Professor of Chinese Literature and Language at Peking University and the author of Cinema and Desire: Feminist Marxism and Cultural Politics in the Work of Dai Jinhua, as well as numerous other books in Chinese. Lisa Rofel is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and coauthor of Fabricating Transnational Capitalism: A Collaborative Ethnography of Italian-Chinese Global Fashion, also published by Duke University Press.

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