After the Post-Cold War: The Future of Chinese History

di Jinhua Dai (Autore)

Lisa Rofel (Curatore)

Duke University Press, 2018

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.

• Autore: Jinhua Dai
• Curatore: Lisa Rofel
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Collana: Sinotheory
• Anno: 2018
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 224 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• Peso: 318 gr.
• EAN: 9781478000518

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