| After the Post-Cold War: The Future of Chinese History Contributor(s): Dai, Jinhua (Author), Rofel, Lisa (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1478000511 ISBN-13: 9781478000518 Publisher: Duke University Press OUR PRICE: $25.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Asia - China - Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory - Social Science | Popular Culture |
| Dewey: 951.06 |
| LCCN: 2018007280 |
| Series: Sinotheory |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.70 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Chinese |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |