After the Post-Cold War: The Future of Chinese History by Dai, Jinhua

After the Post-Cold War: The Future of Chinese History (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781478000389)

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After the Post-Cold War: The Future of Chinese History by Dai, Jinhua

After the Post-Cold War: The Future of Chinese History

$102.95
After the Post-Cold War: The Future of Chinese History by Dai, Jinhua

After the Post-Cold War: The Future of Chinese History

$102.95
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Jinhua Dai
ISBN-10: 1478000384
ISBN-13: 9781478000389
Publisher: Duke University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/16/2018
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.70d
By Jinhua Dai
By Jinhua Dai
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Dai Jinhua is Professor of Chinese Literature and Language at Peking University and the author of Cinema and Desire: Feminist Marxism and Cultural Politics in the Work of Dai Jinhua, as well as numerous other books in Chinese.

Lisa Rofel is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and coauthor of Fabricating Transnational Capitalism: A Collaborative Ethnography of Italian-Chinese Global Fashion, also published by Duke University Press.

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