Uneven Modernity : : Literature, Film, and Intellectual Discourse in Postsocialist China / / Haomin Gong.
Postsocialist China is marked by paradoxes: economic boom, political conservatism, cultural complexity. Haomin Gong's dynamic study of these paradoxes, or "unevenness," provides a unique and seminal approach to contemporary China. Reading unevenness as a problem and an opportunity sim...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2011] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Critical Interventions
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) :; 4 b&w images |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: China, Uneven Development, and Global Modernity
- Chapter 1. Uneven Modernity in Postsocialist China: A Critical Inquiry
- Chapter 2. Popularization of Traditional Culture in Postsocialist China: A Study of the Yu Qiuyu Phenomenon
- Chapter 3. Constructing a Neorealist Reality: Petty Urbanites, Mundaneness, and Chi Li's Fiction
- Chapter 4. Commerce and the Critical Edge: The Politics of Postsocialist Film and the Case of Feng Xiaogang
- Chapter 5. Geopolitics in Postsocialist Art Film and Beyond: Reading Wang Xiaoshuai's Films
- Postscript: Is an "Even Modernity" Possible in China?
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index