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Author Zhang, Xudong, 1965-

Title Postsocialism and cultural politics [electronic resource] : China in the last decade of the twentieth century / Xudong Zhang.

Imprint Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2008.

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Description x, 346 p. : ill.
Series Post-contemporary interventions
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Post-contemporary interventions.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-340) and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Politics and culture -- China.
Chinese literature -- Political aspects.
Motion pictures -- Political aspects -- China.
Postmodernism -- China.
Post-communism -- China.
China -- Politics and government -- 1976-2002.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
Added Title China in the last decade of the twentieth century
ISBN 9780822388937
0822388936
9780822342120 (cloth : alk. paper)
082234212X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822342304 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0822342308 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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