16. Whence and Whither the Postmodern/Post-Mao-Deng: Historical Subjectivity and Literary Subjectivity in Modern China

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: Postmodernism and China 1
4. I . mapping the postmodern
5. 1. The Mapping of Chinese Postmodernity 21
6. 2. On Be(ij)ing in theWorld: ‘‘Postmodernism,’’ ‘‘Globalization,’’ and the Making of Transnational Space in China 41
7. 3. Postmodern Literary Discourse and Contemporary Public Culture in Taiwan 68
8. 4. Hong Kong, China, and the Question of Postcoloniality 89
9. II . cultural politics
10. 5. Popular Culture and the Culture of the Masses in Contemporary China 123
11. 6. Global POSTmodernIZATION: The Intellectual, the Artist, and China’s Condition 145
12. 7. Becoming Cyborgian: Postmodernism and Nationalism in Contemporary Taiwan 175
13. III . cultural studies
14. 8. Imagined Nostalgia 205
15. 9. The Mysterious Other: Postpolitics in Chinese Film 222
16. 10. ‘‘Let Him Fucking See the Green Smoke Beneath My Groin’’: The Mythology of Chinese Rock 239
17. 11. Borrowed Modernity: History and the Subject in A Borrowed Life 275
18. 12. Postmodernism and Hong Kong Cinema 294
19. IV .literary interventions
20. 13. Postmodernism and Chinese Novels of the Nineties 325
21. 14. Women and the Discourse of Desire in Postrevolutionary China: The Awkward Postmodernism of Chen Ran 337
22. 15. Melancholy against the Grain: Approaching Postmodernity inWang Anyi’s Tales of Sorrow 358
23. 16. Whence and Whither the Postmodern/Post-Mao-Deng: Historical Subjectivity and Literary Subjectivity in Modern China 379
24. Epilogue: Postmodernism and Postsocialist Society— Historicizing the Present 399
25. Selected Glossary of Terms and Titles 443
26. Contributors 445
27. Index 447