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Postsocialism and Cultural Politics : China in the Last Decade of the Twentieth Century /
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.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Durham, NC :
Duke University Press,
2008.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The cultural politics of postsocialism
- Part I. Intellectual discourse: national and global determinations
- The return of the political: 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.