Chinese modernity and global biopolitics : studies in literature and visual culture / Sheldon H. Lu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lu, Sheldon H.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Postmodernism--China.

Postmodernism.

Popular culture--China.

Popular culture.

China.

Biopolitics.

Physical Description:

xiii, 264 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, [2007]

Contents:

Introduction: China and the Global Biopolitical Order 1

Part 1 Literature and Biopolitics

1 Waking to Global Modernity: The Classical Tale in the Late Qing 23

2 When Mimosa Blossoms: Blockage of Male Desire in Yu Dafu and Zhang Xianliang 38

3 Body Writing: Beauty Writers at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century 53

Part 2 Art: From the National to the Diasporic

4 The Naked Body Politic in Postsocialist China and the Chinese Diaspora 71

5 "Beautiful Violence": War, Peace, Globalization 93

Part 3 Sinophone Cinema and Postsocialist Television

6 Hollywood, China, Hong Kong: Representing the Chinese Nation-State in Filmic Discourse 115

7 History, Memory, Nostalgia: Rewriting Socialism in Film and Television Drama 130

8 Dialect and Modernity in Twenty-first-Century Sinophone Cinema 150

Part 4 Cityscape in Multimedia

9 Tear Down the City: Reconstructing Urban Space in Cinema, Photography, Video 167

Historical Conclusion: Chinese Modernity and the Capitalist World-System 191

Postscript: Answering the Question, What Is Chinese Postsocialism? 204.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-253) and index.

ISBN:

9780824831110

082483111X

9780824831776

0824831772

OCLC:

76167420