Globalization and Cultural Trends in China / / Kang Liu.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Liu, Kang,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2003]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1. Is There an Alternative to (Capitalist) Globalization? The Debate about Modernity, Postmodernity, and Postcoloniality --; 2. What Is "Socialism with Chinese Characteristics"? Issues of Culture, Politics, and Ideology --; 3. The Rise of Commercial Popular Culture and the Legacy of the Revolutionary Culture of the Masses --; 4. The Short-Lived Avant-Garde Literary Movement and Its Transformation The Case of Yu Hua --; 5. The Internet in China Emergent Cultural Formations and Contradictions --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index --; About the Author
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780824844707; 9783110649772; 9783110564143; 9783110663259
• DOI: 10.1515/9780824844707
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Kang Liu.

In this timely work, Liu Kang argues that globalization in China is both a historical condition in which the country's gaige kaifang (reform and opening up) has unfolded and a set of values or ideologies by which it and the rest of the globe are judged. Moreover, globalization signals a significant ascendancy of culture. Liu examines China's current ideological struggles in political discourse, intellectual debate, popular culture, avant-garde literature, the news media, and the internet. With careful textual analysis and observation informed by critical theories and cultural studies, he offers a forceful critique of the Chinese version of globalism that privileges economic development at the expense of social justice and equality.