Postsocialism and cultural politics : China in the last decade of the twentieth century / / Xudong Zhang.

• Superior document: Post-contemporary interventions
• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Zhang, Xudong, 1965-
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: e-Duke books scholarly collection.; Post-contemporary interventions.
• Physical Description: x, 346 p. :; ill.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The cultural politics of postsocialism -- Part I. Intellectual discourse: national and global determinations -- The return of the politcal: the making of the post-Tiananmen intellectual field -- Nationalism, mass culture, and intellectual strategies in the 1990's -- Postmodernism and postsocialist society: cultural politics after the "New Era" -- Part II. Literary discourse: narrative possibilities of postsocialism -- Shanghai nostalgia: mourning and allegory in Wang Anyi's literary production in the 1990's -- Toward a critical iconography: Shanghai, "minor literature," and the unmaking of a modern Chinese mythology -- "Demonic realism" and the "socialist market economy": language game, natural history, and social allegory in Mo Yan's The republic of wine -- Part III. Cinematic discourse: universality, singularity, and the everyday world -- National trauma, global allegory: construction of collective memory in Tian Zhuangzhuang's The blue kite -- Narrative, culture, and legitimacy: repetition and singularity in Zhang Yimou's The story of Qiu Ju.