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.