Postsocialist Modernity
Subtitle: Chinese Cinema, Literature, and Criticism in the Market Age
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: February 27, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780804758741
Subjects: Asian studies; Cultural studies; Films, cinema; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Literary Criticism; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; China; Asian - Chinese; Popular Culture - General; Literary Criticism / Asian / Chinese
Description: "This book examines Chinese culture in the age of market reforms. Beginning in the early 1990s and on into the new century, fields such as literature and film have been fundamentally transformed by the forces of the market as China is integrated ever more closely into the world economic system. As a result, the formerly unified revolutionary culture has been changed into a pluralized state that reflects the diversity of individual experience in the reform era. New autonomous forms of culture that have arisen include avant-garde as well as commercial literature, and independent film as well as a new entertainment cinema. Chinese people find their experiences of postsocialist modernity reflected in all kinds of new cultural products as well as critical debates that often question the direction of Chinese society in the midst of comprehensive and rapid change."--Jacket.