| Portion of title |
China in the last decade of the twentieth century |
| Series |
Post-contemporary interventions
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| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-340) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2007043852 |
| ISBN | 9780822342120 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 082234212X (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780822342304 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0822342308 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
