Includes bibliographical references (pages [331]-340) and index.
Contents:
Introduction : the cultural politics of postsocialism -- Intellectual discourse : national and global determinations. The return of the political : 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 -- 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 -- 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.
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