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This edited collection brings together a range of essays that examine the maze of Chinese postmodernity. The essays explore the global expansion of capital as a structural crisis represented in art and literature. It ultimately acknowledges the ambiguity of Chinese postmodernity, the overlapping cultural paradigms of Confucian ethics and a capitalist economy, residual of Maoism, socialist relations, and individualist philosophy.
List of contents
Acknowledgments - Preface - The Matrix of Civilizations - The Myth of Progress: Why Did Zheng He Not Go Eastwards? - Western Elements in the Art of Feng Zikai - The Labyrinth of Postmodernity - 1919-2019 China: The May Fourth Prophecy and the Postmodern Turn - Post-Maoist Era and the Westernization of Time - American and Chinese Literature. Behind the Mask of Postmodernism: A National Failure - Female Aesthetics - Women of Realism: Madame Bovary, Anna Karenina, and Wang Qiyao - Female Writing in Chinese Postmodern Literature: From Neorealism to Avant-Garde - The Case of Wei Hui and Mian Mian: It Is Not About China - Artistic Maladie - The Absurd Consciousness of Chinese Avant-Garde Art - The Oedipal Fate of Chinese Literary Avant-Garde - Chinese Character List -Index.
About the author
Alberto Castelli is Associate Professor of Literature at Hainan University, China. He obtained his PhD at La Sapienza University, Rome. He also received his Master in Latin American Literature from Birkbeck University of London and his Master in Chinese Philosophy at Xiamen University, China. Castelli's publications include The Modernity of Chinese Postmodern Literature: A Step Beyond Ideology.
Summary
This edited collection brings together a range of essays that examine the maze of Chinese postmodernity. The essays explore the global expansion of capital as a structural crisis represented inart and literature
