Chinese Literature and Culture in the Age of Global Capitalism: Renaissance or Rehabilitation?

Contents
	Acknowledgements
	Introduction Mapping the Multivalence of Contemporary
Chinese Culture in the Age of Global Capitalism
		1 Post-New Period, Postmodernism and Postsocialism
		2 Raymond Williams’ Concept of Three Cultures and Its Chinese
Variations
		3 Structural Outline of the Five Features
	Part 1 The Structure of Feeling of the
Traditional Socialist Era
		Chapter 1 A Lyrical Poet in the Era of Postsocialism: On Some
Motifs of Fanken Chen’s Poems
			1 Attachment to a “Cultural China” and Yearning for a
“Political China”
			2 A Heroic Complex with the Plebeian Consciousness
			3 The Motifs of Patriotism and Homesickness
			4 Affective Economy and the Spiritual World of the Socialist Era
			5 Conclusion
		Chapter 2 On the Historical-Cultural Connotations of “Chinese New Poetry”: Fu Tianhong’s Poems as a
Case-Study
			1 The Formation of the Rebellious Personality and Critical
Consciousness
			2 Pioneering Spirit, Perseverance and the Desire for Freedom
			3 Critique of the Alienation of a Commercialized Society
			4 Historical Retrospection and Social Activities
			5 Conclusion
	Part 2 The Historical Consciousness of the
New Liberal Humanism
		Chapter 3 Anatomizing China’s “Avant-Garde Fiction”: Articulating Historical Experience in Formal
Experimentation
			1 Ma Yuan: The Dispersion of Meaning during Secularization
			2 Ge Fei: Disintegration and Dispersion of the Subject
			3 Yu Hua: Historical Projection of a Post-Revolutionary
Secular Society
			4 Su Tong: Retrospection on Revolution by the New Bourgeois Class
			5 Conclusion
		Chapter 4 Sampling the “New Historical Fiction”: White Deer
Plain as a Representative Text of New Historicism
			1 A Patriarchal Clan System Consisting of Master-Slave Relationships
			2 The Opening of the Gate of Desire
			3 Three Rebels Fighting against Existing Institutions
			4 Three Political Forces: An Incomprehensive Representation
			5 A Rebel’s Tragic Ending and the Incompleteness of History
			6 The Textual Blankness and the Absence of Political Belief
			7 “Cultural-Psychological Structure” and the Culturalist Mentality
			8 Historical Revisionism and New Historicist Fiction
			9 Conclusion
	Part 3 From Post-Revolutionary Passion to
Postmodern Consumerism
		Chapter 5 Two Kinds of Bildungsroman: On the Avant-Garde
Films of China’s Sixth-Generation Auteurs
			1 Dirt (1992): A Bildungsroman of Youth in the Early 1990s
			2 The Making of Steel (1997): Why Could the Steel Not Be
Successfully Made?
			3 Conclusion
		Chapter 6 “Postmodern” Love Stories: Articulating the Self-Consciousness of the Entrepreneurial Class in
China’s Pop Cinema
			1 A Hedonistic and Yuppy Life Philosophy: Romance on Lushan
Mountain 2010 as a Tale of China’s Entrepreneurial Class
			2 Nihilists and the Pragmatic Principle: So Young (2013) as a
Symptomatic “Youth Film”
	Part 4 Middle Class Tastes and Intellectual Trends
		Chapter 7 Making a Historical Fable: The Narrative Strategy of
Lust, Caution and Its Social Repercussions
			1 A Précis of the Surface Plotline
			2 Projection of Social Institutions in Historical Representation
			3 Displacement of Party Politics by Sexual Politics
			4 Appropriation of Historical Allegory through Identity
Deconstruction
			5 Conclusion
			6 Coda
		Chapter 8 Social Democracy or Neoliberal Freedom? Globalization and Contemporary Chinese
Intellectual Thought
			1 Dialectics of Postmodernism and (Post-)Nationalism
			2 Cooperation of Neo-Statism and “Corporatism”
			3 Conflicts between New Left and New Right
			4 Outcry for New Socialism and the Urge for Neoliberal Capitalism
			5 Conclusion
	Part 5 Cultural Identity and Subjectivity in the
Age of Global Capitalism
		Chapter 9 The Exploration of “Cultural Politics” and Its Crossroads: On the Discussion of “Chinese
Identity” in the Era of Globalization
			1 Why Take German Thinkers as the Object of Research?
			2 Totality and the Dialectics of Historical Materialism
			3 The Dialectic between Universality and Particularity
			4 Cultural Diversity and Pluralism
			5 How to Transcend the Nation-State System and Rebuild
Continuity?
			6 What is Cultural Politics?
			7 Tensions and Dilemmas: Whose Cultural Politics?
			8 Conclusion
		Chapter 10 Establishing the Subjectivity of Modern Chinese
Culture: Zhou Ning’s Research as a Case Study
			1 Critique of Sinologism and Modern Academic Institutions
			2 From “Study of the Chinese Image in the West” to
“Cross-Cultural Study”
			3 The Problems of “Self-Orientalization” and “Universal Value”
			4 The Pitfalls of Genealogical Study and Culturalist Mentality
			5 Exploring the Subjectivity of Modern Chinese Culture
			6 Conclusion
		Conclusion In Search of the Renaissance of China’s
Socialist Culture
	Selected Bibliography
	Index