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Postsocialism and cultural politics : China in the last decade of the twentieth century / Xudong Zhang.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zhang, Xudong, 1965-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Post-contemporary interventions.
- Post-contemporary interventions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Politics and culture--China.
- Politics and culture.
- Chinese literature--Political aspects.
- Chinese literature.
- Motion pictures--Political aspects--China.
- Motion pictures.
- Postmodernism--China.
- Postmodernism.
- Post-communism--China.
- Post-communism.
- China--Politics and government--1976-2002.
- China.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 346 pages)
- Other Title:
- China in the last decade of the twentieth century
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A sequel to Zhang's Chinese Modernism, it discusses crucial issues in China in the 1990s including nationalism, neo-liberalism, postmodernism, nostalgia, revisionism and the intellectual formulations and cultural politics.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-340) and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780822388937
- 0822388936
- OCLC:
- 607765654
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