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Chinese Modernism in the Era of Reforms
Xudong Zhang
其他書名
Cultural Fever, Avant-garde Fiction, and the New Chinese Cinema
出版
Duke University Press
, 1997
主題
Art / History / General
Art / Asian / General
Art / Asian / Chinese
History / Asia / General
History / Asia / China
Literary Criticism / General
Literary Criticism / Asian / General
Social Science / General
Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Social Science / Sociology / General
Social Science / Media Studies
Social Science / Regional Studies
ISBN
9780822318460
0822318466
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=t2sHCVuJ_gwC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Blending history and theory,
Chinese Modernism in the Era of Reforms
offers both a historical narrative and a critical analysis of the cultural visions and experiences of China's post-Mao era. In this volume, Xudong Zhang rethinks Chinese modernism as a historical genre that arose in response to the historical experience of Chinese modernity rather than as an autonomous aesthetic movement. He identifies the ideologies of literary and cultural styles in the New Era (1979-1989) through a critical reading of the various "new waves" of Chinese literature, film, and intellectual discourse.
In examining the aesthetic and philosophical formulations of the New Era's intellectual elites, Zhang first analyzes the intense cultural and intellectual debates, known as the "Great Cultural Discussion" or "Cultural Fever" that took place in Chinese urban centers in the mid- and late 1980s. Chinese literary modernism is then explored, specifically in relation to Deng Xiaoping's sweeping reforms and with a focus on the changing literary sensibility and avant-garde writers such as Yu Hua, Ge Fei, and Su Tong. Lastly, Zhang looks at the the making of New Chinese Cinema and films such as
Yellow Earth
,
Horse Thief
, and
King of the Children
--films through which Fifth Generation filmmakers first developed a style independent from socialist realism. By tracing the origins and contemporary elaboration of the idea of Chinese modernism, Zhang identifies the discourse of modernism as one of the decisive formal articulations of the social dynamism and cultural possibilities of post-Mao China.
Capturing the historical experience and the cultural vision of China during a crucial decade in its emergence as a world power,
Chinese Modernism in the Era of Reforms
will interest students and scholars of modernism, Chinese literature and history, film studies, and cultural studies.