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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777993503321

Autore

Zhang Xudong

Titolo

Postsocialism and cultural politics : China in the last decade of the Twentieth Century / / Xudong Zhang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 2008

ISBN

9780822388937

0822388936

9780822342120

9780822342304

0822342308

082234212X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 346 pages)

Collana

Post-Contemporary Interventions

Disciplina

951.05/9

Soggetti

Politics and culture - Political aspects - China

Chinese literature - Political aspects - China

Motion pictures - China

Postmodernism - China

Post-communism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Contains bibliographical references (pages 331-340) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part I: Intellectual Discourse: National and Global Determinations -- One. The return of the political: the making of the post-Tiananmen intellectual field -- Two. Nationalism, Mass Culture, and Intellectual Strategies in the 1990s -- Three. Postmodernism and Postsocialist society: cultural politics after the "New Era"; Part II: Literary discourse: narrative possibilities of postsocialism -- Four. Shanghai nostalgia: mourning and allegory in Wang Anyi's literary production in the 1990s

Five. Toward a critical iconography: Shanghai, "minor literature," and the unmaking of a modern Chinese mythology -- Six. "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 -- Seven. National trauma, global allegory: construction of collective memory in Tian Zhuangzhuang's the blue kite -- Eight. Narrative,



culture, and legitimacy: repetition and singularity in Zhang Yimou's the story of Qiu Ju.

Sommario/riassunto

A sequel to Zhang's Chinese Modernism, it discusses crucial issues in China in the 1990s including nationalism, neo-liberalism, postmodernism, nostalgia, revisionism and the intellectual formulations and cultural politics.