Public Discourses of Contemporary China [electronic resource] : The Narration of the Nation in Popular Literatures, Film, and Television /
Shen, Y.author.
Analyzing contemporary Chinese literature, film, and television, Shen shows the significance of nationalism for the mass imagination in post-socialist China. Chapters move from the intellectual idealism of the 1980s, through the post-Tiananmen transition, to the national cinema of the 1990s, and finally to the Internet literature of today.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Analyzing contemporary Chinese literature, film, and television, Shen shows the significance of nationalism for the mass imagination in post-socialist China. Chapters move from the intellectual idealism of the 1980s, through the post-Tiananmen transition, to the national cinema of the 1990s, and finally to the Internet literature of today.
Heshang: socialist historical consciousness in transformation and the 1980s pedagogy of reform -- Making money is patriotic: new immigrant fiction of the early 1990s -- 3. Patriotism, history, and Leitmotif films in the late 1990s -- 4. Netizens, counter-memories, and internet literature into the new millennium -- Conclusion: Dreams in the Twenty-First century.
Ethnology-Asia.
Motion pictures-Asia.
Civilization-History.
Oriental literature.
Motion pictures and television.
Social history.
Asian Culture.
Asian Cinema and TV.
Cultural History.
Asian Literature.
Screen Studies.
Social History.