After the post-cold war : the future of Chinese history
| Full title: |
After the post-cold war : the future of Chinese history / Dai Jinhua ; edited and with an introduction by Lisa Rofel. |
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| Alternative titles: |
Future of Chinese history |
| Main author: | Dai, Jinhua, 1959- (Author) |
| Other authors: | Rofel, Lisa, 1953- (Editor) |
| Format: | Book |
| Summary: |
"In After the Post-Cold War eminent Chinese cultural critic Dai Jinhua interrogates history, memory, and the future of China as a global economic power in relation to its socialist past, profoundly shaped by the Cold War. Drawing on Marxism, post-structuralism, psychoanalysis, and feminist theory, Dai examines recent Chinese films that erase the country's socialist history to show how such erasure resignifies socialism's past as failure and thus forecloses the imagining of a future beyond that of globalized capitalism. She outlines the tension between China's embrace of the free market and a regime dependent on a socialist imprimatur. She also offers a genealogy of China's transformation from a source of revolutionary power into a fountainhead of globalized modernity. This narrative, Dai contends, leaves little hope of moving from the capitalist degradation of the present into a radical future that might offer a more socially just world." -- Publisher's description. |
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| Other authors: | Rofel, Lisa, 1953- (Editor) |
| Language: | English Chinese |
| Published: |
Durham :
Duke University Press,
2018.
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| Classmark: |
CC778.5 /541248 |
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| Series: |
Sinotheory.
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| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-188) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781478000389 1478000384 9781478000518 1478000511 |