Chinese Modernism in the Era of Reforms
Subtitle: Cultural Fever, Avant-Garde Fiction, and the New Chinese Cinema (Post-Contemporary Interventions)
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: December 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 431
ISBN-13: 9780822318460
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Cultural studies; Films, cinema; General; China; Sociology; Cinema/Film: Book; History and criticism; Asian - General; Asian Studies; Film & Television Studies; 20th century; Chinese literature; Modernism (Literature); Motion pictures
First sentence: Between early 1985 and the eve of the crackdown on the student movement in Tiananmen Square, there was an extraordinary tide of cultural discussion in China commonly referred to as the "Great Cultural Discussion" or simply as the "Cultural Fever" (wenhua re).