Public Discourses of Contemporary China
Subtitle: The Narration of the Nation in Popular Literatures, Film, and Television
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Mar 03, 2015
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9781137497420
Description: "This book explores the ways the narration of the nation in popular literatures, film, and television gives rise to various public discourses of contemporary China, and defines social subjects such as intellectuals, netizens, media elites, and state-sponsored filmmakers. It argues that these subjects have, to varying degrees, transformed the state project of modernization into their own through mass aestheticization of the nation, whereby postsocialist politics is contingent upon and performative through national aesthetics. By analyzing cultural products from a wide range of media, including the Internet, this book sheds light on the historical significance of nationalism for mass imagination and identification in the less-than-democratic system of China for the past three decades. "--
Notes: Source title: Public Discourses of Contemporary China: The Narration of the Nation in Popular Literatures, Film, and Television (Chinese Literature and Culture in the World)