Zhang / Fish / Jameson Postsocialism and Cultural Politics

China in the Last Decade of the Twentieth Century
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8893-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 358 Seiten

Reihe: Post-Contemporary Interventions

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zhang, Xudong

Fish, Stanley

Jameson, Fredric

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: The Cultural Politics of Socialism 1

Part I. Intellectual Discourse: National and Global Determinations

1. The Return of the Political: The Making of the Post-Tiananmen Intellectual Field 25

2. Nationalism, Mass Culture, and Intellectual Strategies in the 1990s 102

3. Postmodernism and Postsocialist Society: Cultural Politics after the "New Era" 136

Part II. Literary Discourse: Narrative Possibilities of Postsocialism

4. Shanghai Nostalgia: Mourning and Allegory in Wang Anyi's Literary Production in the 1990s 181

5. Toward a Critical Iconography: Shanghai, "Minor Literature," and the Unmaking of a Modern Chinese Mythology 212

6. "Demonic Realism" and the "Socialist Market Economy": Language Game, Natural History, and Social Allegory in Mo Yan's The Republic of Wine 240

Part III. Cinematic Discourse: Universality, Singularity, and the Everyday World

7. National Trauma, Global Allegory: Construction of Collective Memory in Tian Zhuangzhuang's The Blue Kite 269

8. Narrative, Culture, and Legitimacy: Repetition and Singularity in Zhang Yimou's The Story of Qiu Ju 289

Notes 311

Bibliography 331

Index 341

Über Autor(innen)

Xudong Zhang is Professor of Comparative Literature and Chinese and Chair of the Department of East Asian Studies at New York University. His books include Chinese Modernism in the Era of Reforms: Cultural Fever, Avant-Garde Fiction, and New Chinese Cinema; Whither China: Intellectual Politics of Contemporary China; and Postmodernism and China (co-edited with Arif Dirlik), all also published by Duke University Press.