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Format: 1 online resource (402 p.) : , 12 b&w photos, 6 tables

ISBN: 9780822381150

Content: Whither China? presents an in-depth and wide-angled picture of Chinese intellectual life during the last decade of the millennium, as China struggled to move beyond the shadow of the Tiananmen tragedy. Because many cultural and intellectual paradigms of the previous decade were left in ruins by that event, Chinese intellectuals were forced in the early 1990s to search for new analytical and critical frameworks. Soon, however, they found themselves engulfed by tidal waves of globalization, surrounded by a new social landscape marked by unabashed commodification, and stunned by a drastically reconfigured socialist state infrastructure.The contributors to Whither China? describe how, instead of spearheading the popular-mandated and state-sanctioned project of modernization, intellectuals now find themselves caught amid rapidly changing structures of economic, social, political, and cultural relations that are both global in nature and local in an irreducibly political sense. Individual essays interrogate the space of Chinese intellectual production today, lay out the issues at stake, and cover major debates and discursive interventions from the 1990s. Those who write within the Chinese context are joined by Western observers of contemporary Chinese cultural and intellectual life. Together, these two groups undertake a truly international intellectual struggle not only to interpret but to change the world.Contributors. Rey Chow, Zhiyuan Cui, Michael Dutton, Gan Yang, Harry Harootunian, Peter Hitchcock, Rebecca Karl, Louisa Schein, Wang Hui, Wang Shaoguang, Xudong Zhang

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Preface -- , 1. The Making of the Post-Tiananmen Intellectual Field: A Critical Overview -- , Part I Against the Neoliberal Dogma: Four Arguments from China -- , 2. Debating Liberalism and Democracy in China in the 1990s -- , 3.Whither China? The Discourse on Property Rights Reform in China -- , 4. The Changing Role of Government in China -- , 5. Contemporary Chinese Thought and the Question of Modernity -- , Post-Tiananmen Art -- , Part II In the Global Context -- , 6. King Kong in Hong Kong: Watching the ‘‘Handover’’ from the U.S.A. -- , 7. The Burdens of History: Lin Zexu (1959) and The Opium War (1997) -- , 8. Mao to the Market -- , 9. Chinese Consumerism and the Politics of Envy: Cargo in the 1990s? -- , 10. Nationalism, Mass Culture, and Intellectual Strategies in Post-Tiananmen China -- , 11. Street Scenes of Subalternity: China, Globalization, and Rights -- , Appendix In the Tiger’s Lair: Socialist Everydayness Enters the Market Economy in Post-Mao China -- , Contributors -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780822381150

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822381150

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822381150

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822381150

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822381150

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Format: 1 online resource (403 p.)

ISBN: 1-282-90391-8 , 9786612903915 , 0-8223-8115-X

Series Statement: Science and cultural theory Imre Lakatos and the guises of reason

Uniform Title: Intellectual politics in post-Tiananmen China.

Content: Chinese cultural and intellectual politics waned after the Tiananmen Square incident. This volume explores their revitalization in the 1990s.

Note: Originally published: Intellectual politics in post-Tiananmen China. Durham : Duke University Press, 1998. (Social text ; 55). , The making of the post-Tiananmen intellectual field : a critical overview / Xudong Zhang -- Debating the liberalism and democracy in China in the 1990s / Gan Yang -- Whither China? The discourse on property rights reform in China / Zhiyuan Cui -- The changing role of government in China / Shaoguang Wang -- Contemporary Chinese thought and the question of modernity / Wang Hui -- King Kong in Hong Kong : watching the "handover" from the U.S.A. / Rey Chow -- The burdens of history : Lin Zexu (1959) and The Opium War (1997) / Rebeca E. Karl -- Mao to the market / Peter Hitchcock -- Chinese consumerism and the politics of envy : cargo in the 1990s? / Lousia Schein -- Nationalism, mass culture, and intellectual strategies in post-Tiananmen China / Xudong Zhang -- Street scenes of subalternity : China, globalization and rights / Michael Dutton -- Appendix : In the tiger's lair : socialist everydayness enters the market economy in post-Mao China / Harry D. Harootunian. , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8223-2648-5

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8223-2659-0

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780822381150