Masculinity Besieged?(Updated) Issues of Modernity and Male Subjectivity in Chinese Literature of the Late Twentieth Century by XuepingZhong Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2000 by Duke University Press Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-2442-3, ISBN: 0-8223-2442-3
"In Masculinity Besieged? Xueping Zhong looks at Chinese literature and films produced during the 1980s to examine male subjectivities in contemporary China. Reading through a feminist psychoanalytic lens, Zhong argues that understanding the nature of male subjectivities as portrayed in literature and film is crucial to understanding China’s ongoing quest for modernity. Before the 1990s onslaught of popular culture decentered the role of ..."
""This collection makes a fascinating read. Each of the nine memoirs is crafted with skill and honesty." --Dorothy Ko, professor of history, Barnard College What does it mean to have grown up female in the Mao era? How can the remembered details of everyday life help shed light upon those turbulent times? Some of Us is a collection of memoirs by nine Chinese women who grew up during the Mao era and now live in the United States. E ..."
"Published in China in 2010, Revolution and Its Narratives is a historical, literary, and critical account of the cultural production of the narratives of China's socialist revolution. Through theoretical, empirical, and textual analysis of major and minor novels, dramas, short stories, and cinema, Cai Xiang offers a complex study that exceeds the narrow confines of existing views of socialist aesthetics. By engaging with the relationshi ..."
Mainstream Culture Refocused Television Drama, Society, and the Production of Meaning in Reform-Era China by XuepingZhong Paperback, 232 Pages, Published 2010 by University Of Hawaii Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8248-3469-2, ISBN: 0-8248-3469-0
"Serialized television drama (dianshiju), perhaps the most popular and influential cultural form in China over the past three decades, offers a wide and penetrating look at the tensions and contradictions of the post-revolutionary and pro-market period. Zhong Xueping’s timely new work draws attention to the multiple cultural and historical legacies that coexist and challenge each other within this dominant form of story telling. Although ..."
"Published in China in 2010, "Revolution and Its Narratives" is a historical, literary, and critical account of the cultural production of the narratives of China's socialist revolution. Through theoretical, empirical, and textual analysis of major and minor novels, dramas, short stories, and cinema, Cai Xiang offers a complex study that exceeds the narrow confines of existing views of socialist aesthetics. By engaging with the relations ..."
Mainstream Culture Refocused Television Drama, Society, and the Production of Meaning in Reform-Era China (Hardback) by ZhongXueping, Michael Marra Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2010 by University Of Hawaii Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8248-3417-3, ISBN: 0-8248-3417-8
Masculinity Besieged? Issues of Modernity and Male Subjectivity in Chinese Literature of the Late Twentieth Century by XuepingZhong Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2000 by Duke University Press Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-2406-5, ISBN: 0-8223-2406-7
"In Masculinity Besieged? Xueping Zhong looks at Chinese literature and films produced during the 1980s to examine male subjectivities in contemporary China. Reading through a feminist psychoanalytic lens, Zhong argues that understanding the nature of male subjectivities as portrayed in literature and film is crucial to understanding China’s ongoing quest for modernity. Before the 1990s onslaught of popular culture decentered the role of ..."
"The first English collection of translated essays, by Chinese literary scholars, writers, and critics, this volume focuses on the legacy of socialist culture and post-socialist phenomena within the context of capitalist globalization. By rethinking socialism, literature, and culture in relation to the intellectual and cultural trends since the start of the reform and by debating the rise of the 'new left' culture, this book seeks to of ..."
"What does it mean to have grown up female in the Mao era? How can the remembered details of everyday life help shed light upon those turbulent times? "Some of Us" is a collection of memoirs by nine Chinese women who grew up during the Mao era. All hail from urban backgrounds and all have obtained their Ph.D.s in the United States; thus, their memories are informed by intellectual training and insights that only distance can allow. Each ..."
"The renowned exiled essayist Liu Binyan shares Liu Zhifeng's view. See Liu
Binyan, “Ping Di san zhi yanjing kan Zhongguo” (A review of Looking at China
through a third eye), Beijing zhi chun (Spring in Beijing) 10 (1994): 23—32. 24. In
fact, this debate on “equality vs. efficiency,” which translates into the question of “
democracy vs. liberalism,” proves to be moot because under neoliberalism where
the “liberal” force of the market ..."
"Since the early 1990s, while mainland China's state-owned movie studios have struggled with financial and ideological constraints, an exciting alternative cinema has developed. Dubbed the "Urban Generation," this new cinema is driven by young filmmakers who emerged in the shadow of the events at Tiananmen Square in 1989. What unites diverse directors under the "Urban Generation" rubric is their creative engagement with the w ..."
Mainstream Culture Refocused Television Drama, Society, and the Production of Meaning in Reform-Era China by XuepingZhong 233 Pages, Published 2019 by University Of Hawaii Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8248-8250-1, ISBN: 0-8248-8250-4
"Mainstream Culture Refocused opens with an examination of television as a narrative motif in three contemporary Chinese art-house films. Zhong then turns her attention to dianshiju’s most important subgenres."
"Against the dire consequences of China s market development, a new intellectual force of the New Left has come on the scene since the mid 1990s. New Left intellectuals debate the issues of social justice, distributive equality, markets, state intervention, the socialist legacy, and sustainable development. Against the neoliberal trends of free markets, liberal democracy, and consumerism, New Left critics launched a critique in hopes of ..."
"As China enters the second decade of the 21st century, it faces tremendous challenges and crisis. How did China arrive at this point of crisis? How do we understand the nature of the challenges? More than any existing study of reform-era China, this volume offers a theoretical discussion of the cultural and social roots of the reform. It does so for the purpose of further exploring whether or not it is possible to imagine alternatives. ..."
"In the face of rapid and radical social changes since the late 1970s, contemporary China faces tremendous challenges. What is China transforming toward? What are the ideological positions and, more generally, cultural values that inform, question, and demand critical assessment of the social transformations in the reform era? This collection of essays aims at addressing these questions. Written by some of the leading intellectuals and t ..."
"Theoretical Framework and Chinese Context Tianyu Cao, Xueping Zhong, Liao
Kebin, Ban Wang. nothing for their hard labor. in the eyes of Masiling's ... Chen
yingsong's choice to insert elements of romanticism or symbolism into realism is
an important artistic characteristic of his work. liu Jiming was originally best
known for writing works of a distinctly avant-garde and experimental style. yet
after his essay “how do we nar- rate ..."
"At the time, in 1991, Chen points out, Liang Shiqiu (䕏߇) was in vogue again
while Lu Xun came to be known as a mean-spirited individual going after Liang,
unmercifully and therefore wrongly, with his unrelentingly sharp pen.34 Chen's
second piece “Again, on Lu Xun's Style of Criticism” (Ύંਗ਼Ԙٙકɛ zailun Lu Xun
de maren) appeared in 1996 when “being kind ... 37 Echoing Chen Sihe, but
from a somewhat different angle, was a Shanghai-b ..."