Debating the Socialist Legacy and Capitalist Globalization in China

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-18
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Shanghai as a Socialist City and Spatial Reproduction....Pages 21-56
One Village and One Novel....Pages 57-71
Gender Politics and the Crisis of Socialist Aesthetics....Pages 73-84
The Crisis of Socialism and Efforts to Overcome It....Pages 85-106
Front Matter....Pages 107-107
Mythification of the Reform-Era History....Pages 109-122
Genealogy and Ideology of the Avant-Garde Fiction....Pages 123-136
Eight Key Terms in Literary Criticism....Pages 137-150
Enjoyment: A New Experiment on Surrealist Writing....Pages 151-162
Front Matter....Pages 163-163
The Rise of “Subaltern Literature” In the Twenty-First Century....Pages 165-182
A Difficult Breakthrough....Pages 183-203
 Che Guevara: Notes On The Play, Its Production, and Reception....Pages 205-216
Front Matter....Pages 217-217
 The White-Haired Girl: Limitations and Potentials of the New Interpretation....Pages 219-238
Subjective Identity, Revolutionary Consciousness, and People’s Literature....Pages 239-252
People’s Literature....Pages 253-272
Back Matter....Pages 273-287