After the PostCold War: The Future of Chinese History by Jinhua Dai (English) Pa

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Dai Jinhua interrogates history, memory, and the future of China as a global economic power in relation to its Cold War past to show how the recent erasure of the country's socialist history signifies socialism's failure and forecloses the imagining of a future beyond that of globalized capitalism.

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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 Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Preface / Carlos Rojas  viiAcknowledgments  xiEditor's Introduction / Lisa Rofel  xiiiIntroduction / Translated by Jie Li  1Part I. Trauma, Evacuated Memories, and Inverted Histories1. I Want to Be Human: A Story of China and the Human / Translated by Shuang Shen  252. Hero and the Invisible Tianxia / Translated by Yajun Mo  47Part II. Class, Still Lives, and Masculinity3. Temporality, Nature Morte, and the Filmmaker: A Reconsideration of Still Life / Translated by Lennet Daigle  674. The Piano in a Factory: Class, in the Name of the Father / Translated by Jie Li  91Part III. The Spy Genre5. The Spy-Film Legacy: A Preliminary Cultural Analysis of the Spy Film / Translated by Christopher Connery  1096. In Vogue: Politics and the Nation-State in Lust, Caution, and the Lust, Caution Phenomenon in China / Translated by Erebus Wong and Lisa Rofel  127Finale. History, Memory, and the Politics of Representation / Translated by Rebecca E. Karl  141Interview with Dai Jinhau, July 2014 / Lisa Rofel  160Notes  167Selected Works of Dai Jinhua  181Bibliography  183Translators' Biographies  189Index  191

Review

"This volume is one of the best publications of its kind, not only because of the brilliance of the original essays, but also because of the excellent translation and editing that come across as judicious as one reads it." -- Jessica Yeung * China Perspectives *"This is a challenging book by an author at the top of her game. Insightful and cosmpolitan in its range, the book shows that public intellectuals in China are managing to find a voice. The editors have done the author and readers a fine service." -- Paul Clark * China Journal *

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"This volume is one of the best publications of its kind, not only because of the brilliance of the original essays, but also because of the excellent translation and editing that come across as judicious as one reads it."

Details ISBN1478000511 Author Lisa Rofel Publisher Duke University Press Series Sinotheory Year 2018 ISBN-10 1478000511 ISBN-13 9781478000518 Format Paperback Pages 224 Imprint Duke University Press Subtitle The Future of Chinese History Place of Publication North Carolina Country of Publication United States Edited by Lisa Rofel DEWEY 951.06 Illustrations 2 illustrations Publication Date 2018-11-16 Short Title After the Post-Cold War Language English UK Release Date 2018-11-16 AU Release Date 2018-11-16 NZ Release Date 2018-11-16 US Release Date 2018-11-16 Birth 1948 Affiliation Rutgers University USA Position Graduate Student Qualifications J.D. Alternative 9781478000389 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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