"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
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