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This work maps the terrain of the postmodern in China.
Table des matières
Introduction: Postmodernism and China / Arif Dirlik and Xudong Zhang 1
I. Mapping the Postmodern
1. The Mapping of Chinese Postmodernity / Wang Ning 21
2. On Be(ij)ing in the World: "Postmodernism," "Globalization," and the Making of Transnational Space in China / Anthony D. King and Abidin Kusno 41
3. Postmodern Literary Discourse and Contemporary Public Culture in Taiwan / Ping-hiu Liao 68
4. Hong Kong, China, and the Question of Postcoloniality / Xiaoying Wang 89
II. Cultural Politics
5. Popular Culture and the Culture of the Masses in Contemporary China / Liu Kang 123
6. Global POSTmoderniIZATION: The Intellectual, the Artist, and China's Condition / Sheldon Hsiao-peng Lu 145
7. Becoming Cyborgian: Postmodernism and Nationalism in Contemporary Taiwan / Sebastian Hsien-hao Liao 175
III. Cultural Studies
8. Imagined Nostalgia / Dai Jinhua 205
9. The Mysterious Other: Postpolitics in Chinese Film / Chen Xiaoming 222
10. "Let Him Fucking See the Green Smoke Beneath My Groin": The Mythology of Chinese Rock / Jeroen de Kloet 239
11. Borrowed Modernity: History and the Subject in
A Borrowed Life / Chao-yang Liao 275
12. Postmodernism and Hong Kong Cinema / Evans Chan 294
IV. Literary Interventions
13. Postmodernism and Chinese Novels of the Nineties / Zhang Yiwu 325
14. Women and the Discourse of Desire in Postrevolutionary China: The Awkward Postmodernism of Chen Ran / Wendy Larson 337
15. Melancholy against the Grain: Approaching Postmodernity in Wang Anyi's Tales of Sorrow / Xiaobing Tang 358
16. Whence and Whither the Postmodern/Post-Mao-Deng: Historical Subjectivity and Literary Subjectivity in Modern China / Xiaobin Yang 379
Epilogue: Postmodernism and Postsocialist Society—Historicizing the Present / Xudong Zhang 399
Selected Glossary of Terms and Titles 443
Contributors 445
Index 447
A propos de l'auteur
Arif Dirlik and Xudong Zhang, eds.
Résumé
This special issue seeks to examine the effect of postmodernism on Chinese intellectual and creative activity.
