"The questions of subjectivity and the literary style of realism, as manifested in Hu Feng's theoretical writings and Lu Ling's fictional writings, occupy a unique position in modern China. By looking more closely into the theoretical and fictional texts and the social-historica…
"This book provides a reexamination of the debates between Hu Feng, Lu Ling, and other Chinese left-wing theorists from a cultural-political perspective. The author argues that individualism should be understood within changing historical contexts and that subjectivity should be…
"This book provides a reexamination of the debates between Hu Feng, Lu Ling, and other Chinese left-wing theorists from a cultural-political perspective. The author argues that individualism should be understood within changing historical contexts and that subjectivity should be…
Aborted dreams of "new women" : Xiao Hong and Mei Niang -- Matrimonial syndrome in a besieged society : identity complex in Eileen Chang's "Boudoir stories" -- Alienated minds dreaming for integration : constrained cosmopolitanism in Wumingshi's and Xu Xu's "Modern literati nove…
"In Contending for the 'Chinese Modern', Xiaoping Wang studies the writing of fiction in 1940s China. Through a practice of political hermeneutics of fictional texts and social subtexts, it explores how social modernity and literary modernity intertwined with and interacted upon…
"In Contending for the 'Chinese Modern', Xiaoping Wang studies the writing of fiction in 1940s China. Through a practice of political hermeneutics of fictional texts and social subtexts, it explores how social modernity and literary modernity intertwined with and interacted upon…
"In Contending for the 'Chinese Modern', Xiaoping Wang studies the writing of fiction in 1940s China. Through a practice of political hermeneutics of fictional texts and social subtexts, it explores how social modernity and literary modernity intertwined with and interacted upon…
"In Contending for the 'Chinese Modern', Xiaoping Wang studies the writing of fiction in 1940s China. Through a practice of political hermeneutics of fictional texts and social subtexts, it explores how social modernity and literary modernity intertwined with and interacted upon…
"This book is a comprehensive exploration of the content, forms, merits, and faults of Jia Zhangke's films. It analyzes ten of his featured film regarding three major themes: Jia's filmmaking and China in the market society; truth claims and political unconscious; "post-socialis…
"This book is a comprehensive exploration of the content, forms, merits, and faults of Jia Zhangke's films. It analyzes ten of his featured film regarding three major themes: Jia's filmmaking and China in the market society; truth claims and political unconscious; "post-socialis…
"This book is a comprehensive exploration of the content, forms, merits, and faults of Jia Zhangke's films. It analyzes ten of his featured film regarding three major themes: Jia's filmmaking and China in the market society; truth claims and political unconscious; "post-socialis…
"This book is a comprehensive exploration of the content, forms, merits, and faults of Jia Zhangke's films. It analyzes ten of his featured film regarding three major themes: Jia's filmmaking and China in the market society; truth claims and political unconscious; "post-socialis…
"This book is a comprehensive exploration of the content, forms, merits, and faults of Jia Zhangke's films. It analyzes ten of his featured film regarding three major themes: Jia's filmmaking and China in the market society; truth claims and political unconscious; "post-socialis…
