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Book SynopsisChinese cultural and intellectual politics waned after the Tiananmen Square incident. This volume explores their revitalisation in the 1990s.
Table of ContentsPreface vii
1. The Making of the Post-Tiananmen Intellectual Field: A Critical Overview / Xudong Zhang 1
Part I. Against the Neoliberal Dogma: Four Arguments from China
2. Debating Liberalism and Democracy in China in the 1990s / Gan Yang 79
3. Whither China? The Discourse on Property Rights Reform in China / Zhiyuan Chi 103
4. The Changing Role of Government in China / Shaoguang Wang 123
5. Contemporary Chinese Thought and the Question of Modernity / Wang Hui 161
Post-Tiananmen Art 199
Part II. In the Global Context
6. King Kong in Hong Kong: Watching the "Handover" from the U.S.A. / Rey Chow 211
7. The Burdens of History:
Lin Zexu (1959) and the
Opium War (1997) / Rebecca E. Karl 229
8. Mao to the Market / Peter Hitchcock 263
9. Chinese Consumerism and the Politics of Envy: Cargo in the 1990s? / Louisa Schein 285
10. Nationalism, Mass Culture, and Intellectual Strategies in Post-Tiananmen China / Xudong Zhang 315
11. Street Scenes of Subalternity: China, Globalization, and Rights / Michael Dutton 349
Appendix. In the Tiger's Lair: Socialist Everydayness Enters the Market Economy in Post-Mao China / Harry D. Harootunian 371
Contributors 383
Index 385
