...Christopher Connery In an era of generalized depoliticization in China, what is the nature of critical practice, and what constraints does it face? Many on the Chinese left have seen in the history and practice of the Chinese Revolution, and in the stated values of the Chinese Communist Party...

...,” and others—that gave it the nickname “Red Chongqing” and made it a point of reference and admiration for many on the Chinese left. The “Chongqing Model” was for a few years a widely debated topic nationwide, but the fall and trial of Bo Xilai and his wife brought the model discourse to an abrupt end...

...Yiching Wu What are the lessons to be drawn from post-Mao China’s transition toward capitalism, and from the historical experience of the country’s revolutionary past? In contrast to the view advocated by many critics on the left that opposes post-Mao China’s “reform and opening up” to Mao’s...

... 1942), and Mao Zedong 1893–1976); reworking Chinese linguis- tics; working intimately with the founder of modern Chinese literature, Lu Xun 1881–1936), in the League of Left-­Wing Writers and establishing the philosophic foundation of Communist Party Marxism. My focus here is on how Qu...

... not become a member of the Chinese Communist Party. In 1930, at the party’s invitation, Lu Xun became the figurehead leader of its flagship underground literary organi- zation, the League of Chinese Left-­Wing Writers, based in Shanghai. He remained in this role for the duration...

... and cultural analyses of the first phase of this film movement in the 1930s, see Laikwan Pang, Building a New China in Cinema: The Chinese Left-wing Cinema Movement, 1932–37 (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002). 10. Paul Clark, Chinese Cinema: Culture and Politics Since 1949 (Cambridge: Cambridge...

.... New Left.” Wang Hui and Wang Ning are very different intellectuals. But they have one thing in common: fulfillment of the fantasies of China and Chinese common among foreign scholars, the one because he is very good at working the relationship, the other because he has a keen sense of what...

... formations in China. The row between the New Left and the liberals, for example, has been one of the most pro- longed and divisive debates among Chinese intellectuals, despite the fact that on a range of aspects of the reform program their views converge.8 They are scornful of each other’s positions...

... by Douzinas Costas Žižek Slavoj , 33 – 66 . London : Verso . Bray Mark . 2013 . Translating Anarchy: The Anarchism of Occupy Wall Street . Hants, UK : Zero Books . Breinart Peter . 2013 . “ The Rise of the New New Left .” Daily Beast . September 12 , 2013 . http...

.... www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2011/04/22/2003501408 . Massey Doreen . 1995 . Spatial Divisions of Labour: Social Structures and the Geography of Production . Basingstoke : Macmillan . Moretti Franco . 2000 . “ Conjectures on World Literature .” New Left Review , no. 1 : 54 – 68...

... chu- banshe, 2004). Pun and Chan / The Subsumption of Class Discourse  81 had to guard against radicalism from the Left more than from the Right. The Chinese working class, previously made by “politics” and then fed with a structural content by state enterprises...

... of blank spaces intentionally left between the lines, just like the blank space intentionally left in traditional Chinese ink paintings. The blankness makes Bernstein's poems grow the wings of blankness, graceful and light; some poems intentionally leave no text, forming a kind of anti-writing...

... of their own president but can comment on Tony Blair. ‘Tiananmen’ cannot be mentioned 7. Yang Lian, ‘‘Dark Side of the Chinese Moon New Left Review 32 (2005): 139. Venturino / Inquiring After Theory in China 97 eral tendency to self-promotion/protection through self-censorship...

... of their own president but can comment on Tony Blair. ‘Tiananmen’ cannot be mentioned 7. Yang Lian, ‘‘Dark Side of the Chinese Moon New Left Review 32 (2005): 139. Venturino / Inquiring After Theory in China 97 eral tendency to self-promotion/protection through self-censorship...

... to the jeremiad as anti-­imperial US critique, early and late.14 As Sean Wilentz, in Bob Dylan in America, has elaborated the social-­ historical dimensions of Dylan’s project, given its ties to Popular Front left- ism of the 1930s, the surreal dynamism of the 1960s, and the Rolling Thun- der Revue...

... Kongzi The left-­wing activists who inherited the iconoclasm of May Fourth did such a thorough job of “smashing” the old ideas represented by the “Confucius Shop” that, by the time they took control of China in 1949, Confucius, representing “feudal culture,” was officially...

... an unprecedented exodus out of the wretched countryside into cities—tens of millions of young men and women have left their home villages in search of wage jobs, metamorphosing into the bulk of the lumpen proletariat in China. They are politically the most deprived and economically the most exploited...

... and Transformation of Bridewealth,” 637–57. Yan / The Individualization of the Family 225 new problems are the atomization of the family, the de facto single-­parent family and the “left-­behind children,” and the care of the elderly. As indicated above, the Chinese state...

... the interwoven relationship between cinema and politics in China, from the left-wing film movement in the 1930s to the main melody film productions in postsocialist China. She expects to receive her PhD in the Com- parative Literature Program soon. Yu Keping is currently professor and director...

... of the rural reconstruction movement per se, but he is supportive of the general project, and his positions are close to those associated with rural reconstruction. . For many of those of whom we could loosely say are on the left in China, such as Cao and Wen, this reflection on modern Chinese history...