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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809846303321

Autore

Zhang Xudong <1965->

Titolo

Postsocialism and cultural politics : China in the last decade of the twentieth century / / Xudong Zhang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, NC, : 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 - China

Chinese literature - Political aspects

Motion pictures - Political aspects - China

Postmodernism - China

Post-communism - China

China Politics and government 1976-2002

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 (p. [331]-340) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

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.