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China, transnational visuality, global postmodernity / Sheldon H. Lu.
Van Pelt Library DS779.23 .L82 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lu, Sheldon H.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Postmodernism--China.
- Postmodernism.
- China--Civilization--1976-.
- China.
- Civilization.
- Popular culture--China.
- Popular culture.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 321 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2001.
- Summary:
- By focusing on Chinese cultural formations and critical discourses of the last decade of the century, the author dissects the intellectual, economic, and political contradictions of a turbulent era. This wide-ranging, deeply interdisciplinary work demarcates the cultural terrain by examining diverse media: film, television, avant-garde art, and literature, as well as critical theory and intellectual history.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Postmodernity, Visuality, and China in the Late Twentieth Century 1
- Part I. Theory, Criticism, Intellectual History
- 1. Intellectuals in Transition: The Academy, the Public Sphere, and Postmodern Politics 31
- 2. Universality/Difference: The Discourses of Chinese Modernity, Postmodernity, and Postocoloniality 48
- 3. Theory and Criticism: Economic Globalization, Cultural Nationalism, Intellectual Identity 71
- Part II. Cinema
- 4. Ermo: Televisuality, Capital, and the Global Village / Anne T. Ciecko 89
- 5. Diaspora, Citizenship, Nationality: Hong Kong and 1997 104
- 6. The Heroic Trio: Anita Mui, Maggie Cheung, Michelle Yeoh
- Self-Reflexivity and the Globalization of the Hong Kong Action Heroine / Coauthored with Anne T. Ciecko 122
- Part III. Avant-Garde Art
- 7. Postmodernism and Cultural Identity in Chinese Art 141
- 8. The Uses of China in Avant-Garde Art: Beyond Orientalism 173
- Part IV. Popular Culture, Television Drama, Literature
- 9. Popular Culture: Toward a Historical and Dialectical Method 195
- 10. Soap Opera: The Transnational Politics of Visuality, Sexuality, and Masculinity 213
- 11. Literature: Intellectuals in the Ruined Metropolis at the Fin de Siecle 239
- Postscript: 1999 261.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-304) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0804738963
- 0804742049
- OCLC:
- 46937655
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