Uneven Modernity: Literature, Film, and Intellectual Discourse in Postsocialist China 9780824860400

Postsocialist China is marked by paradoxes: economic boom, political conservatism, cultural complexity. Haomin Gong’s dy

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Uneven Modernity: Literature, Film, and Intellectual Discourse in Postsocialist China
 9780824860400

Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: China, Uneven Development, and Global Modernity
Chapter 1. Uneven Modernity in Postsocialist China: A Critical Inquiry
Chapter 2. Popularization of Traditional Culture in Postsocialist China: A Study of the Yu Qiuyu Phenomenon
Chapter 3. Constructing a Neorealist Reality: Petty Urbanites, Mundaneness, and Chi Li’s Fiction
Chapter 4. Commerce and the Critical Edge: The Politics of Postsocialist Film and the Case of Feng Xiaogang
Chapter 5. Geopolitics in Postsocialist Art Film and Beyond: Reading Wang Xiaoshuai’s Films
Postscript: Is an “Even Modernity” Possible in China?
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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