New PDF release: Whither China?: Intellectual Politics in Contemporary China

By Xudong Zhang,Gan Yang,Zhiyuan Cui,Wang Shaoguang,Wang Hui

Whither China? offers an in-depth and wide-angled photo of chinese language highbrow lifestyles over the past decade of the millennium, as China struggled to maneuver past the shadow of the Tiananmen tragedy. simply because many cultural and highbrow paradigms of the former decade have been left in ruins by way of that occasion, chinese language intellectuals have been compelled within the early Nineties to look for brand new analytical and important frameworks. quickly, besides the fact that, they discovered themselves engulfed by means of tidal waves of globalization, surrounded through a brand new social panorama marked by way of unabashed commodification, and surprised by way of a greatly reconfigured socialist country infrastructure.
The participants to Whither China? describe how, rather than spearheading the popular-mandated and state-sanctioned undertaking of modernization, intellectuals now locate themselves stuck amid speedily altering buildings of monetary, social, political, and cultural kinfolk which are either worldwide in nature and native in an irreducibly political experience. person essays interrogate the gap of chinese language highbrow creation this present day, lay out the problems at stake, and canopy significant debates and discursive interventions from the Nineteen Nineties. those that write in the chinese language context are joined by way of Western observers of latest chinese language cultural and highbrow lifestyles. jointly, those teams adopt a very overseas highbrow fight not just to interpret yet to alter the world.

Contributors. Rey Chow, Zhiyuan Cui, Michael Dutton, Gan Yang, Harry Harootunian, Peter Hitchcock, Rebecca Karl, Louisa Schein, Wang Hui, Wang Shaoguang, Xudong Zhang

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