Table of Contents

Introduction: Postmodernism and China / Arif Dirlik and Xudong Zhang 1
I. Mapping the Postmodern
1. The Mapping of Chinese Postmodernity / Wang Ning 21
2. On Be(ij)ing in the World: "Postmodernism," "Globalization," and the Making of Transnational Space in China / Anthony D. King and Abidin Kusno 41
3. Postmodern Literary Discourse and Contemporary Public Culture in Taiwan / Ping-hiu Liao 68
4. Hong Kong, China, and the Question of Postcoloniality / Xiaoying Wang 89
II. Cultural Politics
5. Popular Culture and the Culture of the Masses in Contemporary China / Liu Kang 123
6. Global POSTmoderniIZATION: The Intellectual, the Artist, and China's Condition / Sheldon Hsiao-peng Lu 145
7. Becoming Cyborgian: Postmodernism and Nationalism in Contemporary Taiwan / Sebastian Hsien-hao Liao 175
III. Cultural Studies
8. Imagined Nostalgia / Dai Jinhua 205
9. The Mysterious Other: Postpolitics in Chinese Film / Chen Xiaoming 222
10. "Let Him Fucking See the Green Smoke Beneath My Groin": The Mythology of Chinese Rock / Jeroen de Kloet 239
11. Borrowed Modernity: History and the Subject in A Borrowed Life / Chao-yang Liao 275
12. Postmodernism and Hong Kong Cinema / Evans Chan 294
IV. Literary Interventions
13. Postmodernism and Chinese Novels of the Nineties / Zhang Yiwu 325
14. Women and the Discourse of Desire in Postrevolutionary China: The Awkward Postmodernism of Chen Ran / Wendy Larson 337
15. Melancholy against the Grain: Approaching Postmodernity in Wang Anyi's Tales of Sorrow / Xiaobing Tang 358
16. Whence and Whither the Postmodern/Post-Mao-Deng: Historical Subjectivity and Literary Subjectivity in Modern China / Xiaobin Yang 379
Epilogue: Postmodernism and Postsocialist Society—Historicizing the Present / Xudong Zhang 399
Selected Glossary of Terms and Titles 443
Contributors 445
Index 447

About the Author

Arif Dirlik is Professor of History at Duke University.

Xudong Zhang is Assistant Professor of Comparative and Chinese Literature at New York University. He is the author of Chinese Modernism in the Era of Reforms, also published by Duke University Press.

Reviews

"Several articles offer unique insights into the chaotic and contradictory world of Chinese culture."--Bonnie S. McDougall "Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies"