Introduction: Decency and Debasement

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface: Everything Diverges vii
4. Introduction: Decency and Debasement 1
5. Dreaming of Better Times: ‘‘Repetition with a Difference’’ and Community Policing in China 21
6. Constructing Perry’s ‘‘Chinaman’’ in the Context of Adorno and Benjamin 53
7. Redemption and Consumption: Depicting Culture in the 1990s 89
8. Making Time: Historic Preservation and the Space of Nationality 105
9. Aesthetics and Chinese Marxism 173
10. TheWorld Conception of Japanese Social Science: The Kōza Faction, theO¯ tsuka School, and the Uno School of Economics 205
11. ‘‘And TheyWould Start Again’’: Women and Struggle in Korean Nationalist Literature 247
12. Spring, Temporality, and History in Li Dazhao 269
13. Spring 291
14. The Probable Defeat: Preliminary Notes on the Chinese Cultural Revolution 311
15. Interpreting Revolutionary Excess: The Naxalite Movement in India 333
16. Marxism, Anti-Americanism, and Democracy in South Korea: An Examination of Nationalist Intellectual Discourse 359
17. ‘‘Who Am I?’’—Questions of Voluntarism in the Paradigm of Socialist Alienation 385
18. Contributors 417
19. Index 419