Zhang(2008), Xudong, Postsocialism and Cultural Politics: China in the Last Decade of the Twentieth Century

Zhang(2008), Xudong, Postsocialism and Cultural Politics: China in the Last Decade of the Twentieth Century, Duke University Press.

 

acknowledgments

introduction: the cultural politics of postsocialism

part 1intellectual discourse: national and global determinations

1.the return of the political: the making of the post-tiananmen intellectual field

2.nationalism, mass culture, and intellectual strategies in the 1990s

3.postmodernism and postsocialist society: cultural politics after the “new era”

part 2literary discourse: narrative possibilities of postsocialism

4.shanghai nostalgia: mourning and allegory in Wanganyi's literary production in the 1990s

5.toward a critical iconography: shanghai, "minor literature", and the unmaking of a modern chinese mythology

6."demonic realism" and the "socialist market economy": language game, natural history, and social allegory in MoYan's the republic of wine

part 3cinematic discourse: university, singularity, and the everyday world

7.national trauma, global allegory: construction of collective memory in tian zhuangzhuang's the blue kite

8.narrative, culture, and legitimacy: repetion and singularity in 코뭏 yimou's the story of qiu ju

 

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