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Chinese Modernism in the Era of Reforms - Cultural Fever, Avant-Garde Fiction, and the New Chinese Cinema (Paperback, New)
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Chinese Modernism in the Era of Reforms - Cultural Fever, Avant-Garde Fiction, and the New Chinese Cinema (Paperback, New)
Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions
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Blending history and theory, Chinese Modernism in the Era of
Reforms offers both a historical narrative and a critical analysis
of the cultural visions and experiences of China's post-Mao era. In
this volume, Xudong Zhang rethinks Chinese modernism as a
historical genre that arose in response to the historical
experience of Chinese modernity rather than as an autonomous
aesthetic movement. He identifies the ideologies of literary and
cultural styles in the New Era (1979-1989) through a critical
reading of the various "new waves" of Chinese literature, film, and
intellectual discourse. In examining the aesthetic and
philosophical formulations of the New Era's intellectual elites,
Zhang first analyzes the intense cultural and intellectual debates,
known as the "Great Cultural Discussion" or "Cultural Fever" that
took place in Chinese urban centers in the mid- and late 1980s.
Chinese literary modernism is then explored, specifically in
relation to Deng Xiaoping's sweeping reforms and with a focus on
the changing literary sensibility and avant-garde writers such as
Yu Hua, Ge Fei, and Su Tong. Lastly, Zhang looks at the the making
of New Chinese Cinema and films such as Yellow Earth, Horse Thief,
and King of the Children-films through which Fifth Generation
filmmakers first developed a style independent from socialist
realism. By tracing the origins and contemporary elaboration of the
idea of Chinese modernism, Zhang identifies the discourse of
modernism as one of the decisive formal articulations of the social
dynamism and cultural possibilities of post-Mao China. Capturing
the historical experience and the cultural vision of China during a
crucial decade in its emergence as a world power, Chinese Modernism
in the Era of Reforms will interest students and scholars of
modernism, Chinese literature and history, film studies, and
cultural studies.
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