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Postsocialism and Cultural Politics - China in the Last Decade of the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
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Postsocialism and Cultural Politics - China in the Last Decade of the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions
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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.
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