Zhang Xudong
Zhang Xudong - Postsocialism And Cultural Politics China In The Last Decade Of The Twentieth Century - Paperback
Zhang Xudong - Postsocialism And Cultural Politics China In The Last Decade Of The Twentieth Century - Paperback
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Description: 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.
Title: Postsocialism And Cultural Politics China In The Last Decade Of The Twentieth Century
Author(s): Zhang Xudong
Publisher: Duke University Press
Barcode: 9780822342304
Pages: 352 Pages, 4 B&W Photographs
Publication Date: 4/25/2008
Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions
Category: Cultural Studies
Description: 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.
Title: Postsocialism And Cultural Politics China In The Last Decade Of The Twentieth Century
Author(s): Zhang Xudong
Publisher: Duke University Press
Barcode: 9780822342304
Pages: 352 Pages, 4 B&W Photographs
Publication Date: 4/25/2008
Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions
Category: Cultural Studies
