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1. Introduction–Xudong Zhang
2. Contemporary Chinese Thought and the Question of Modernity–Wang Hui
3. A Critique of Chinese Conservatism in the 1990s–Gan Yang
4. Whither China? The Discourse on Property Rights in the Chinese Reform Context–Zhiyuan Cui
5. Art from Post-Tiananmen China
6. King Kong in Hong Kong: Watching the “Handover” from the U.S.A.–Rey Chow
7. Nationalism, Mass Culture, and Intellectual Strategies in Post-Tiananmen China–Xudong Zhang
“These writers’ analyses of the Chinese intellectual scene in the last two decades of the twentieth century are revealing and important.”—Merle Goldman, Democratization
“These writers’ analyses of the Chinese intellectual scene in the last two decades of the twentieth century are revealing and important.”—Merle Goldman, Democratization
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The essays in this special issue of Social Text explore the fields of cultural and intellectual production in post-Tiananmen China and address the discrepancy between the growth in critical studies of China and the virtually untouched terrain of China’s ideological-intellectual dimension.
Creating a platform for further theoretical discussion about the ongoing struggle to bring about a new social system, the contributors grapple with the internal crisis or disorientation of the Chinese intellectual world as a distorted, but telling picture of the complexity of contemporary Chinese economics, politics, society, and culture. Essays offer a critical examination of the current state of Chinese intellectual discourse; a challenge to mainstream liberalism in China today and its commitment to democracy; a summary of reconsiderations of property rights, economic democracy, political participation, and the meaning of socialism in the age of flexible production; a reflection on the handover of Hong Kong in the context of a general discussion of Western colonialism in China; and an analysis of the rise of consumer nationalism and mass culture in China since the early 1990s. Intellectual Politics in Post-Tiananmen China sheds light on the evasive nature of Chinese society, and the contributors engage the Chinese problematic not only as a crisis but also as an ongoing historical dynamic.
Contributors. Rey Chow, Zhiyuan Cui, Wang Hui, Gan Yang, Xudong Zhang