Postsocialism and cultural politics
Subtitle: China in the last decade of the twentieth century
By: Xudong Zhang.
Series: Post-contemporary interventions
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Durham, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9780822342120; 9780822342304
Subjects: Politics and culture -- China; Chinese literature -- Political aspects; Motion pictures -- Political aspects -- China; Postmodernism -- China; Post-communism -- China; China -- Politics and government -- 1976-2002
Other titles: China in the last decade of the twentieth century
Description: Xudong Zhang offers a critical analysis of China's 'long 1990s', the tumultuous years between the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown and China's entry into the World Trade Organisation in 2001.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-340) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The cultural politics of postsocialism; title: Part I. Intellectual discourse: national and global determinations; title: The return of the politcal: the making of the post-Tiananmen intellectual field; title: Nationalism, mass culture, and intellectual strategies in the 1990's; title: Postmodernism and postsocialist society: cultural politics after the "New Era"; title: Part II. Literary discourse: narrative possibilities of postsocialism; title: Shanghai nostalgia: mourning and allegory in Wang Anyi's literary production in the 1990's; title: Toward a critical iconography: Shanghai, "minor literature," and the unmaking of a modern Chinese mythology; title: "Demonic realism" and the "socialist market economy": language game, natural history, and social allegory in Mo Yan's The republic of wine; title: Part III. Cinematic discourse: universality, singularity, and the everyday world; title: National trauma, global allegory: construction of collective memory in Tian Zhuangzhuang's The blue kite; title: Narrative, culture, and legitimacy: repetition and singularity in Zhang Yimou's The story of Qiu Ju.