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9780822388937

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Poids de l'ouvrage

1 Mo

In Postsocialism and Cultural Politics, Xudong Zhang offers a critical analysis of China's "long 1990s," the tumultuous years between the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown and China's entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001. The 1990s were marked by Deng Xiaoping's market-oriented reforms, the Taiwan missile crisis, the Asian financial crisis, and the end of British colonial rule of Hong Kong. Considering developments including the state's cultivation of a market economy, the aggressive neoliberalism that accompanied that effort, the rise of a middle class and a consumer culture, and China's entry into the world economy, Zhang argues that Chinese socialism is not over. Rather it survives as postsocialism, which is articulated through the discourses of postmodernism and nationalism and through the co-existence of multiple modes of production and socio-cultural norms. Highlighting China's uniqueness, as well as the implications of its recent experiences for the wider world, Zhang suggests that Chinese postsocialism illuminates previously obscure aspects of the global shift from modernity to postmodernity.Zhang examines the reactions of intellectuals, authors, and filmmakers to the cultural and political conflicts in China during the 1990s. He offers a nuanced assessment of the changing divisions and allegiances within the intellectual landscape, and he analyzes the postsocialist realism of the era through readings of Mo Yan's fiction and the films of Zhang Yimou. With Postsocialism and Cultural Politics, Zhang applies the same keen insight to China's long 1990s that he brought to bear on the 1980s in Chinese Modernism in the Era of Reforms.

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Publié par

Duke University Press

Date de parution

25 avril 2008

EAN13

9780822388937

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

1 Mo

Postsocialism and Cultural Politics

post-contemporary interventions

Series Editors: Stanley Fish and Fredric Jameson

Postsocialism and Cultural Politics

China in the Last Decade of the Twentieth Century

Xudong Zhang

Duke University Press 2008

All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acidfree paperd Designed by Jennifer Hill Typeset in Scala by Achorn International Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data appear on the last printed page of this book.

Duke University Press gratefully acknowledges the support of the Chiang ChingKuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, which provided funds toward the publication of this book.

For my parents

Six

Introduction

contents

Acknowledgments

The Cultural Politics of Postsocialism

part i Intellectual Discourse: National and Global Determinations

OneThe Return of the Political: The Making of the PostTiananmen Intellectual Field TwoNationalism, Mass Culture, and Intellectual Strategies in the 1990s

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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

FiveToward 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’sThe Republic of Wine

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part iii Cinematic Discourse: Universality, Singularity, and the Everyday World

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Eight

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

Notes

Bibliography

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acknowledgments

my intellectual debts are recordedin each chapter of this book. There are, however, a few people who deserve special thanks. Throughout my years of writingPostsocialism and Cultural Politics,Fredric Jameson, Arif Dirlik, Gan Yang, Cui Zhiyuan, Rebecca Karl, Harry Harootunian, Thomas Bender, Michael Gilsenan, Perry Anderson, Bruce Robbins, Leo Lee, and Elizabeth Perry were among the ﬁrst readers, indulging me by reading the drafts, offering valuable comments and challenging criticism. I also want to thank Yue Daiyun, Ban Wang, Wang Xiaoming, Leo Lee, Haili Kong, Xiaobing Tang, Ted Huters, Dai Jinhua, Hong Jiang, Gan Yang, Chen Sihe, Elizabeth Perry, John C. Y. Wang and Chao Fen Sun, Xu Jilin, Wendy Lar son, and Ashok Gorung for inviting and hosting me to present various parts of this project at their institutions. I am deeply grateful to my colleagues, students, and friends at Rutgers University and New York University for making my home environment a place where I always felt supported, en couraged, free, and productive. I thank the Shanghai Collegiate EInstitute of Urban Culture Studies for supporting research related to this book. Thanks are also due to Mia Miao Feng for preparing the index, and to Agnes Zhuo Liu for help with references. An early version of chapter 1 was included inWhither China? Intellectual Politics of Contemporary China(Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2001) as the editor’s introduction, with an excerpt published byEast Asia Interna-tional Quarterly19.1–2 (2001): 3–57. Chapter 2 ﬁrst appeared inSocial Text, no. 55 (1998): 109–40. An abbreviated version of chapter 3 ﬁrst appeared in New Left Review237 (1999): 77–105. A fuller version was included inPost-modernism and China,Arif Dirlik and Xudong Zhang (Durham, N.C.: ed.

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