{"product_id":"postsocialism-and-cultural-politics-china-in-the-last-decade-of-the-twentieth-century-paperback","title":"Postsocialism and Cultural Politics: China in the Last Decade of the Twentieth Century - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eXudong Zhang\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003ePostsocialism and Cultural Politics\u003c\/i\u003e, Xudong Zhang offers a critical analysis of China's \"long 1990s,\" the tumultuous years between the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown and China's entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001. The 1990s were marked by Deng Xiaoping's market-oriented reforms, the Taiwan missile crisis, the Asian financial crisis, and the end of British colonial rule of Hong Kong. Considering developments including the state's cultivation of a market economy, the aggressive neoliberalism that accompanied that effort, the rise of a middle class and a consumer culture, and China's entry into the world economy, Zhang argues that Chinese socialism is not over. Rather it survives as postsocialism, which is articulated through the discourses of postmodernism and nationalism and through the co-existence of multiple modes of production and socio-cultural norms. Highlighting China's uniqueness, as well as the implications of its recent experiences for the wider world, Zhang suggests that Chinese postsocialism illuminates previously obscure aspects of the global shift from modernity to postmodernity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eZhang examines the reactions of intellectuals, authors, and filmmakers to the cultural and political conflicts in China during the 1990s. He offers a nuanced assessment of the changing divisions and allegiances within the intellectual landscape, and he analyzes the postsocialist realism of the era through readings of Mo Yan's fiction and the films of Zhang Yimou. With \u003ci\u003ePostsocialism and Cultural Politics\u003c\/i\u003e, Zhang applies the same keen insight to China's long 1990s that he brought to bear on the 1980s in \u003ci\u003eChinese Modernism in the Era of Reforms\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eXudong Zhang has produced a brilliant and compelling study of the various forces struggling with one another in China during the pivotal decade that followed the failure of the 1989 social movement. Through a deft explication of the complicated factors at play--summed up wonderfully in a clear exposition of the collision between postmodernism and postsocialism--Zhang is able to provide a uniquely nuanced picture of the China that has emerged as such a formidable force in our globalized age.--Theodore Huters, author of \"Bringing the World Home: Appropriating the West in Late Qing and Early Republican China\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eXudong Zhang is Professor of Comparative Literature and Chinese and Chair of the Department of East Asian Studies at New York University. His books include \u003ci\u003eChinese Modernism in the Era of Reforms: Cultural Fever, Avant-Garde Fiction, and New Chinese Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eWhither China: Intellectual Politics of Contemporary China\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003ePostmodernism and China\u003c\/i\u003e (co-edited with Arif Dirlik), all also published by Duke University Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.85 x 9.1 x 6.52 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 25, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45762697560261,"sku":"9780822342304","price":64.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/XUWMW2TSpz9780822342304.webp?v=1770357051","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/postsocialism-and-cultural-politics-china-in-the-last-decade-of-the-twentieth-century-paperback","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}