After the Post-Cold War : The Future of Chinese History Hardback
by Jinhua Dai
Edited by Lisa Rofel
Part of the Sinotheory series
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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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:224 pages, 2 illustrations
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:16/11/2018
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- ISBN:9781478000389
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:224 pages, 2 illustrations
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:16/11/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9781478000389
