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China in the last decade of the twentieth century

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Table of Contents

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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-340) and index.

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Durham, NC
Series
Post-contemporary interventions
Other Titles
China in the last decade of the twentieth century

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Dewey Decimal Class
951.05/9
Library of Congress
JQ1516 .Z437 2008, JQ1516.Z437 2008

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Pagination
x, 346 p. :
Number of pages
346

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Open Library
OL16905591M
Internet Archive
postsocialismcul0000zhan
ISBN 10
082234212X, 0822342308
ISBN 13
9780822342120, 9780822342304
LCCN
2007043852
OCLC/WorldCat
176649033
Goodreads
4289473

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