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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction: Why Does Socialist Culture Matter Today?
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Rethinking Socialism, Literature, and Culture
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Critical Reflection on Literature and Culture since the Reform
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Debating the Rise of “New Left” Culture and “Subaltern Literature” in the Reform Era
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People’s Literature and Culture: From Past to Future
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"Re-engaging socialist cultural texts, the editors and contributors all prominent intellectual figures or leading New Left thinkers from China call for a vigorous engagement with the socialist past as 'a real force of critique and contestation as well as a source of aspiration.' Rang[ing] from an analysis of literary and cultural texts produced during the socialist era to an investigation of recent New Left literature and critiques, the essays in Debating the Socialist Legacy enjoin readers to ponder the imposing and in many cases urgent challenges of rethinking socialism in the post-revolutionary age. How might key socialist concepts be redefined and reimagined in the present? For example, in the case of that crucial term, 'the people,' should it be broadened [ ] to reflect contemporary socioeconomic realities [ ] or should it be narrowed to indicate subalterns/peasants/workers in contemporary China? This is but one of the daunting but pressing issues raised by the essays in this timely and engaging volume." - Jie Liu, Professor of Chinese, University of the Pacific, USA (Modern Chinese Literature and Culture Resource Center Publication, 2015)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Debating the Socialist Legacy and Capitalist Globalization in China
Editors: Xueping Zhong, Ban Wang
Series Title: China in Transformation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137020789
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political Science Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Xueping Zhong and Ban Wang 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-02076-5Published: 02 July 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-43751-1Published: 02 July 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-02078-9Published: 26 January 2016
Series ISSN: 2634-5420
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5439
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 287
Topics: Asian Politics, Asian Culture, International Political Economy, Asian Literature, Political Science, History of China