| Description |
1 online resource (273 pages) |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Introduction: China and New Left Critique; I: Geopolitics and New Left Perspectives; 1 Back to the Future: Contemporary China in the Perspective of Its Past, Circa 1980; 2 The Geopolitics of the New Left in China; 3 The Battle for Chinese Discourse and the Rise of the Chinese New Left: Toward a Postcolonial Politics of Knowledge; 4 What Is Political Theater?: A Critique of Performance Studies; II: New Left Literature in China; 5 Internationale as Specter: Na'er, "Subaltern Literature," and Contemporary China's "Left Bank." |
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6 Constructing Agency: Challenges and Possibilities in Chinese New Left Literature7 Toward a New Leftist Ecocriticism in Postsocialist China: Reading the "Poetry of Migrant Workers" as Ecopoetry; 8 The Rise of the Short-short Genre; III: Rethinking Socialism and Market Reform; 9 The Road to Revival: A "Red" Classic or a "Black" Revisionist Epic in Praise of a Postsocialist China; 10 A New Narrative of Development in Chinese Television Media Representations of Africa; 11 Redistribution of the Sensible in Neoliberal China: Real Estate, Cinema, and Aesthetics; Index; List of Contributors. |
| Summary |
The first English anthology on China's New Left in a global context, this book presents the history, background, and the focuses of the most critical force in contemporary China. Well-versed in Chinese history and its global connections, the writers provide well documented and insightful perspectives on China's pursuit of a path radically different from capitalist globalization. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Socialism -- China.
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Socialism in literature.
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China -- Politics and government -- 2002-
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China -- Politics and government -- 1976-2002.
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| Chronological Term |
Since 1976 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Wang, Ban.
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Chen, Xiaomei.
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Vukovich, Daniel F.
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Zhong, Xueping.
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Ferry, Megan.
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Rofel, Lisa.
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Mu, Aili.
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Gong, Haomin.
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Dirlik, Arif.
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Ren, Hai.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Lu, Jie. China and New Left Visions : Political and Cultural Interventions. Lanham : Lexington Books, ©2012 9780739165164 |
| ISBN |
9780739165188 (electronic bk.) |
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0739165186 (electronic bk.) |
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1299731112 |
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9781299731110 |
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073916516X |
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9780739165164 |
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