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China and New Left Visions
Political and Cultural Interventions
China and New Left Visions
Political and Cultural Interventions
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Against the dire consequences of China’s market development, a new intellectual force of the New Left has come on the scene since the mid 1990s. New Left intellectuals debate the issues of social justice, distributive equality, markets, state intervention, the socialist legacy, and sustainable development. Against the neoliberal trends of free markets, liberal democracy, and consumerism, New Left critics launched a critique in hopes of seeking an alternative to global capitalism. This volume takes a comprehensive look at China’s New Left in intellectual, cultural, and literary manifestations. The writers place the New Left within a global anti-hegemonic movement and the legacy of the Cold War. They discover grassroots literature that portrays the plight and resilience of the downtrodden and disadvantaged. With historical visions the writers also shed light on the present by drawing on the socialist past.
Table of Contents
Introduction: China and New Left Critique by Ban Wang and Jie Lu
Part I: Geopolitics and New Left Perspectives
1. Back to the Future: Contemporary China in the Perspective of Its Past, Circa 1980 by Arif Dirlik
2. The Geopolitics of the New Left in China by Lisa Rofel
3. The Battle for Chinese Discourse and the Rise of the Chinese New Left: Toward a Postcolonial Politics of Knowledge by Daniel Vukovich
4. What Is Political Theater?: A Critique of Performance Studies by Ban Wang
Part II: New Left Literature in China
5. Internationale as Specter: Na’er, “Subaltern Literature,” and Contemporary China’s “Left Bank” by Xueping Zhong
6. Constructing Agency: Challenges and Possibilities in Chinese New Left Literature by Jie Lu
7. Toward a New Leftist Ecocriticism in Postsocialist China: Reading the “Poetry of Migrant Workers” as Ecopoetry by Haomin Gong
8. The Rise of the Short-short Genre by Aili Mu
Part 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 by Xiaomei Chen
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 by Hai Ren
Product details
| Published | 20 Jul 2012 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 290 |
| ISBN | 9780739165188 |
| Imprint | Lexington Books |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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