Postsocialism and cultural politics : China in the last decade of the twentieth century /
Xudong Zhang.
- x, 346 páginas : ilustraciones
- Post-contemporary interventions .
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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.