7. The Burdens of History: Lin Zexu (1959) and The Opium War (1997)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. 1. The Making of the Post-Tiananmen Intellectual Field: A Critical Overview 1
5. Part I Against the Neoliberal Dogma: Four Arguments from China
6. 2. Debating Liberalism and Democracy in China in the 1990s 79
7. 3.Whither China? The Discourse on Property Rights Reform in China 103
8. 4. The Changing Role of Government in China 123
9. 5. Contemporary Chinese Thought and the Question of Modernity 161
10. Post-Tiananmen Art 199
11. Part II In the Global Context
12. 6. King Kong in Hong Kong: Watching the ‘‘Handover’’ from the U.S.A. 211
13. 7. The Burdens of History: Lin Zexu (1959) and The Opium War (1997) 229
14. 8. Mao to the Market 263
15. 9. Chinese Consumerism and the Politics of Envy: Cargo in the 1990s? 285
16. 10. Nationalism, Mass Culture, and Intellectual Strategies in Post-Tiananmen China 315
17. 11. Street Scenes of Subalternity: China, Globalization, and Rights 349
18. Appendix In the Tiger’s Lair: Socialist Everydayness Enters the Market Economy in Post-Mao China 371
19. Contributors 383
20. Index 385