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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786941603321

Titolo

China and new left visions [[electronic resource] ] : political and cultural interventions / / edited by Ban Wang and Jie Lu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md., : Lexington Books, c2012

ISBN

0-7391-6518-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LuJie <1958->

WangBan <1957->

Disciplina

951.06/1

Soggetti

Socialism in literature

Socialism - China

China Politics and government 1976-2002

China Politics and government 2002-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: China and New Left Critique; I: Geopolitics and New Left Perspectives; 1 Back to the Future: Contemporary China in the Perspective of Its Past, Circa 1980; 2 The Geopolitics of the New Left in China; 3 The Battle for Chinese Discourse and the Rise of the Chinese New Left: Toward a Postcolonial Politics of Knowledge; 4 What Is Political Theater?: A Critique of Performance Studies; II: New Left Literature in China; 5 Internationale as Specter: Na'er, "Subaltern Literature," and Contemporary China's "Left Bank"

6 Constructing Agency: Challenges and Possibilities in Chinese New Left Literature7 Toward a New Leftist Ecocriticism in Postsocialist China: Reading the "Poetry of Migrant Workers" as Ecopoetry; 8 The Rise of the Short-short Genre; III: Rethinking Socialism and Market Reform; 9 The Road to Revival: A "Red" Classic or a "Black" Revisionist Epic in Praise of a Postsocialist China; 10 A New Narrative of Development in Chinese Television Media Representations of Africa; 11 Redistribution of the Sensible in Neoliberal China: Real Estate, Cinema, and Aesthetics; Index; List of Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

The first English anthology on China's New Left in a global context, this book presents the history, background, and the focuses of the most



critical force in contemporary China. Well-versed in Chinese history and its global connections, the writers provide well documented and insightful perspectives on China's pursuit of a path radically different from capitalist globalization.