The metonymical association betweenChina'andrevolution'is a rhetorical game savoured by
contemporary China observers. Ironical references in Western press to Chineseconsumer …

In Postsocialism and Cultural Politics, Xudong Zhang offers a critical analysis of China's
“long 1990s,” the tumultuous years between the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown and …

The Cultural Revolution of China's Maoist era has come and gone, yet another cultural
revolution of a different sort has been sweeping through China in the 1990s. Although …

These groundbreaking essays use critical theory to reflect on issues pertaining to modern
Chinese literature and culture and, in the process, transform the definition and …

G iven the events of early June 1989 and the devastating purge that followed in its wake, it
would have been reasonable to expect that China was entering an extended period of …

This innovative and widely praised volume uses the dramatic occupation of Tiananmen
Square as the foundation for rethinking the cultural dimensions of Chinese politics. Now in a …

Twenty years after a return from fundamentalism to economic reality, China has become the
world's tenth largest economy and an increasingly important global power. Despite the rise …

As the world watched the crumbling away of communist regimes in Eastern Europe, the pro-
democracy movement in China was dealt a severe blow in June of 1989. Also referred to as …

The year 1919 changed Chinese culture radically, but in a way that completely took
contemporaries by surprise. At the beginning of the year, even well-informed intellectuals …

This book presents a view of social life in China and discusses different methods for
studying contemporary China as a tool for introducing students to the study of popular …