Whither China? Intellectual Politics in Contemporary China

Contents
Preface, vii
1. The Makingof the Post-TiananmenIntellectual Field:
A Critical Overview, Xudong Zhang, 1
Part I
Against the Neoliberal Dogma:
Four Arguments from China
2. Debating Liberalism and Democracy in China
in the 1990s, Gan Yang, 79
3. Whither China? The Discourse on Property Rights
Reform in China, Zhiyuan Cui, 103
4. The Changing Role of Governmentin China,
Shaoguang Wang, 123
5. Contemporary Chinese Thought and the Question
of Modernity, Wang Hui, 161
Post-TiananmenArt, 199
Part II
In the Global Context
6. King Kong in Hong Kong: Watching the “Handover”
from the U.S.A., Rey Chow, 211
7. The Burdens of History: Lin Zexu (1959) and The Opium
War (1997), Rebecca E. Karl, 229
8. Maoto the Market, Peter Hitchcock, 263
g. Chinese Consumerism andthePolitics of Envy:
Cargo in the 1990s?, Louisa Schein, 285
10. Nationalism, Mass Culture, andIntellectual Strategies
in Post-Tiananmen China, Xudong Zhang, 315
11. Street Scenes of Subalternity: China, Globalization,
and Rights, Michael Dutton, 349
Appendix
In the Tiger’s Lair: Socialist Everydayness
Enters the Market Economyin Post-Mao China,
Harry D. Harootunian, 371
Contributors, 383
Index, 385