Chinese modernity and global biopolitics : studies in literature and visual culture / Sheldon H. Lu.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Lu, Sheldon H.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c2007.
Subjects:	Postmodernism > China. Popular culture > China. Biopolitics.
Online Access:	Table of contents only

Table of Contents:

Literature and biopolitics
Waking to global modernity: the classical tale in the late Qing
When mimosa blossoms: blockage of male desire in Yu Dafu and Zhang Xianliang
Body writing: beauty writers at the turn of the twenty-first century
Art: from the national to the diasporic
The naked body politic in postsocialist China and the Chinese diaspora
"Beautiful violence": war, peace, globalization
Sinophone cinema and postsocialist television
Hollywood, China, Hong Kong: representing the Chinese nation-state in filmic discourse
History, memory, nostalgia: rewriting socialism in film and television drama
Dialect and modernity in twenty-first-century sinophone cinema
Cityscape in multimedia
Tear down the city: reconstructing urban space in cinema, photography, video
Historical conclusion: Chinese modernity and the capitalist world-system
Postscript: answering the question, what is Chinese postsocialism?

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