Postsocialism and cultural politics : China in the last decade of the twentieth century /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Durham, NC :
Duke University Press,
2008.
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| Series: | Post-contemporary interventions.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.