Six “Demonic Realism” and the “Socialist Market Economy”: Language Game, Natural History, and Social Allegory in Mo Yan’s The Republic of Wine

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction The Cultural Politics of Postsocialism 1
5. Part i Intellectual Discourse: National and Global Determinations
6. One The Return of the Political: The Making of the Post-Tiananmen Intellectual Field 25
7. Two Nationalism, Mass Culture, and Intellectual Strategies in the 1990s 102
8. Three Postmodernism and Postsocialist Society: Cultural Politics after the “New Era” 136
9. Part ii Literary Discourse: Narrative Possibilities of Postsocialism
10. Four Shanghai Nostalgia: Mourning and Allegory in Wang Anyi’s Literary Production in the 1990s 181
11. Five Toward a Critical Iconography: Shanghai, “Minor Literature,” and the Unmaking of a Modern Chinese Mythology 212
12. Six “Demonic Realism” and the “Socialist Market Economy”: Language Game, Natural History, and Social Allegory in Mo Yan’s The Republic of Wine 240
13. Part iii Cinematic Discourse: Universality, Singularity, and the Everyday World
14. Seven National Trauma, Global Allegory: Construction of Collective Memory in Tian Zhuangzhuang’s The Blue Kite 269
15. Eight Narrative, Culture, and Legitimacy: Repetition and Singularity in Zhang Yimou’s The Story of Qiu Ju 289
16. Notes 311
17. Bibliography 331
18. Index 341