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Postmodernism and China
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Description for Postmodernism and China
Paperback. This special issue seeks to examine the effect of postmodernism on Chinese intellectual and creative activity. Editor(s): Zhang, Xudong; Dirlik, Arif. Num Pages: 464 pages, 16 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; GTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 150 x 30. Weight in Grams: 680.
Few countries have been so transformed in recent decades as China. With a dynamically growing economy and a rapidly changing social structure, China challenges the West to understand the nature of its modernization. Using postmodernism as both a global frame of periodization and a way to break free from the rigid ideology of westernization as modernity, this volume’s diverse group of contributors argues that the Chinese experience is crucial for understanding postmodernism.
Collectively, these essays question the implications of specific phenomena, like literature, architecture, rock music, and film, in a postsocialist society. Some essays address China’s complicity in—as well ... Read more
Few countries have been so transformed in recent decades as China. With a dynamically growing economy and a rapidly changing social structure, China challenges the West to understand the nature of its modernization. Using postmodernism as both a global frame of periodization and a way to break free from the rigid ideology of westernization as modernity, this volume’s diverse group of contributors argues that the Chinese experience is crucial for understanding postmodernism.
Collectively, these essays question the implications of specific phenomena, like literature, architecture, rock music, and film, in a postsocialist society. Some essays address China’s complicity in—as well ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822325444
SKU
V9780822325444
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About Zhang
Arif Dirlik is Professor of History at Duke University. Xudong Zhang is Assistant Professor of Comparative and Chinese Literature at New York University. He is the author of Chinese Modernism in the Era of Reforms, also published by Duke University Press.
Reviews for Postmodernism and China
"Several articles offer unique insights into the chaotic and contradictory world of Chinese culture."
Bonnie S. McDougall, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
Bonnie S. McDougall, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies