Globalization and Cultural Trends in China / Edition 1

by Kang Liu

Overview

In this timely work, Liu Kang argues that globalization in China is both a historical condition in which the country's gaige kaifang (reform and opening up) has unfolded and a set of values or ideologies by which it and the rest of the globe are judged. Moreover, globalization signals a significant ascendancy of culture. Liu examines China's current ideological struggles in political discourse, intellectual debate, popular culture, avant-garde literature, the news media, and the internet. With careful textual analysis and observation informed by critical theories and cultural studies, he offers a forceful critique of the Chinese version of globalism that privileges economic development at the expense of social justice and equality.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780824827595
Publisher:	University of Hawaii Press, The
Publication date:	12/31/2003
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	222
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.48(d)

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	ix
	Introduction	1
Chapter 1	Is There an Alternative to (Capitalist) Globalization? The Debate about Modernity, Postmodernity, and Postcoloniality	23
Chapter 2	What Is "Socialism with Chinese Characteristics"? Issues of Culture, Politics, and Ideology	46
Chapter 3	The Rise of Commercial Popular Culture and the Legacy of the Revolutionary Culture of the Masses	78
Chapter 4	The Short-Lived Avant-Garde Literary Movement and Its Transformation: The Case of Yu Hua	102
Chapter 5	The Internet in China: Emergent Cultural Formations and Contradictions	127
	Notes	163
	Bibliography	185
	Index	203