Whither China? : intellectual politics in contemporary China / edited by Xudong Zhang.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zhang, Xudong, 1965-

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Science and cultural theory Imre Lakatos and the guises of reason

Standardized Title:

Intellectual politics in post-Tiananmen China.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

China--Politics and government--1976-2002.

China.

China--Cultural policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (403 p.)

Other Title:

Intellectual politics in contemporary China

Place of Publication:

Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Chinese cultural and intellectual politics waned after the Tiananmen Square incident. This volume explores their revitalization in the 1990s.

Contents:

The making of the post-Tiananmen intellectual field : a critical overview / Xudong Zhang

Debating the liberalism and democracy in China in the 1990s / Gan Yang

Whither China? The discourse on property rights reform in China / Zhiyuan Cui

The changing role of government in China / Shaoguang Wang

Contemporary Chinese thought and the question of modernity / Wang Hui

King Kong in Hong Kong : watching the "handover" from the U.S.A. / Rey Chow

The burdens of history : Lin Zexu (1959) and The Opium War (1997) / Rebeca E. Karl

Mao to the market / Peter Hitchcock

Chinese consumerism and the politics of envy : cargo in the 1990s? / Lousia Schein

Nationalism, mass culture, and intellectual strategies in post-Tiananmen China / Xudong Zhang

Street scenes of subalternity : China, globalization and rights / Michael Dutton

Appendix : In the tiger's lair : socialist everydayness enters the market economy in post-Mao China / Harry D. Harootunian.

Notes:

Originally published: Intellectual politics in post-Tiananmen China. Durham : Duke University Press, 1998. (Social text ; 55).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-90391-8

9786612903915

0-8223-8115-X

OCLC:

850214962