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Chinese Modernity and Global Biopolitics: Studies in Literature and Visual Culture 9780824861865

Table of contents :
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: China and the Global Biopolitical Order
Part 1. Literature and Biopolitics
1. Waking to Global Modernity: The Classical Tale in the Late Qing
2. When Mimosa Blossoms: Blockage of Male Desire in Yu Dafu and Zhang Xianliang
3. Body Writing: Beauty Writers at the Turn of the Twenty-fi rst Century
Part 2. Art: From the National to the Diasporic
4. The Naked Body Politic in Postsocialist China and the Chinese Diaspora
5. “Beautiful Violence”: War, Peace, Globalization
Part 3. Sinophone Cinema and Postsocialist Television
6. Hollywood, China, Hong Kong: Representing the Chinese Nation-State in Filmic Discourse
7. History, Memory, Nostalgia: Rewriting Socialism in Film and Television Drama
8. Dialect and Modernity in Twenty-fi rst- Century Sinophone Cinema
Part 4. Cityscape in Multimedia
9. Tear Down the City: Reconstructing Urban Space in Cinema, Photography, Video
Historical Conclusion: Chinese Modernity and the Capitalist World-System
Postscript: Answering the Question, What Is Chinese Postsocialism?
Notes
Chinese Glossary
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

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