Postsocialism and cultural politics: China in the last decade of the twentieth century

Introduction: The cultural politics of postsocialism -- Part I. Intellectual discourse: national and global determinations -- The return of the politcal: the making of the post-Tiananmen intellectual field -- Nationalism, mass culture, and intellectual strategies in the 1990's -- Postmodernism...

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Main Author: Zhang, Xudong 1965- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham, NC Duke University Press 2008
Series:Post-contemporary interventions
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Summary:Introduction: The cultural politics of postsocialism -- Part I. Intellectual discourse: national and global determinations -- The return of the politcal: the making of the post-Tiananmen intellectual field -- Nationalism, mass culture, and intellectual strategies in the 1990's -- Postmodernism and postsocialist society: cultural politics after the "New Era" -- Part II. Literary discourse: narrative possibilities of postsocialism -- Shanghai nostalgia: mourning and allegory in Wang Anyi's literary production in the 1990's -- Toward a critical iconography: Shanghai, "minor literature," and the unmaking of a modern Chinese mythology -- "Demonic realism" and the "socialist market economy": language game, natural history, and social allegory in Mo Yan's The republic of wine -- Part III. Cinematic discourse: universality, singularity, and the everyday world -- National trauma, global allegory: construction of collective memory in Tian Zhuangzhuang's The blue kite -- Narrative, culture, and legitimacy: repetition and singularity in Zhang Yimou's The story of Qiu Ju
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-340) and index
Physical Description:x, 346 p ill 24 cm
ISBN:9780822388937
0822388936

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