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...Jing Wang Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 The Mirage of ”Chinese Postmodernism”: Ge Fei, Self-Positioning, and the Avant-Garde Showcase Jing Wang The 1980s was undoubtedly an epoch of “progress” in every sphere of Chi- nese life...

...Donald M. Lowe Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Commentary Postmodernity and Postcoloniality Donald M. Lowe This is a comment read at the panel on “The Postmodernity and Postcolonialism Debate,” Berkeley conference...

...—by their “amateur” performance and the complexity of their personal histories and private lives that they bring into it. Performance studies, queer theory, and theories of postmodernity as a crisis of historical sense illuminate some of these apparent contradictions, but the specifics of China's history and state...

... realist styles into an aesthetics of “disillusioned cinema”: a postmodern urban genre that simultaneously derides personal fantasies of sexual love and political fantasies of nation building. Both films use the formulas of romance to highlight the illusions and alienations of contemporary love...

... perspective in understanding the distinctive local developments of modernity and postmodernity worldwide. This issue focuses on twentieth-century Japan to examine some critical issues concerning collectivism and art, including the impetuses and origins of collectivism, the evolution of modern and contemporary...

..., they are further embroiled within what can be called the postmodern condition of a cultural economy thoroughly saturated by commodification. Often a closer examina- tion of what may easily be regarded political or ideological in a cultural pro...

... to explain interpersonal and inter- group dynamics, precious little emphasis is given these days to questions of ideology, theory, and scholarship. My point in this essay is simply that Marx- ism and postmodernism need to be culturally...

...- cia Mirquez, Ryzard Kapuschinsky, Marguerite Duras, and historian Jonathan Spence. “What we have here,” Lockhart wrote expansively, “is the literary phenomenon which we call postmodernism A month earlier, Vietnamese critic Le Xuan Giang...

... paradigm and opting for postmodern and postcolonial perspectives. They incorporate these “post-” perspectives with overriding nationalist concerns about the authenticity and autonomy of Chinese identity. What emerges from this prima facie...

... as metaphoric mode and, more particularly, exploring the rich play of meaning showcased in the postmodern and post- colonial forms through which the allegorical impulse now so often mani- fests itself. Here I argue that the incompatibility...

... on new theory and postmodernism in China, Tang Xiaobing argues that a definition of Chinese postmodernism must also be a summa- tion of China’s political and socioeconomic dilemma3 Between political unfreedom and market indifference...

... in the contemporary global market economy. These 1980s texts are lib- erally peppered with postcolonial and postmodern jargon and concepts, such as that of in-betweenness. Because of these and other attributes U.S. Japanologists frequently designate...

... the truth of any totalizing narrative. Far from maintaining that there is a general postmodern condition in contemporary Taiwan, I will point out that these three juancun writers have shown a postmodern proclivity unique in Taiwan’s literary history.9...

... of femi- nism in this process of containment a recent development. Yet, in the effort to deconstruct the present positions of subjects within postmodernity, the tensions between liberal and more progressive forms of feminism...

... by the postmodern aesthetics of indeterminacy, a pastiche of styles and idioms, as well as multiple subjectivities.22 In my Santa Ana ❘❘ Feeling Ancestral 467 view, however, Hagedorn recognizes the importance of race as well...

... into instant China experts. Even a dialectician like Terry Eagleton is no excep- tion. In his eagerness to define “contradictions in [Chinese] postmodernism,” the Marxist critic surrenders himself unwittingly to the dubious strategy of U.S. liberal...

... with Asia and the United States” complicates and deepens the “ambiguity of Japanese colonial cultural rule.” Hajime Nakatani cautions us against conflating postmodern epistemolo- gies and the nonmodern epistemic regimes in studies of the Chinese...

... Saigon . Oakland : University of California Press . Harvey David . 1989 . The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change . Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell . Hoang Kimberly Kay . 2014 . “Flirting with Capital: Negotiating Perceptions of Pan-Asian...

... of transnational corporate capitalism as resistance circulates through networks originally designed to facilitate the exchange of labor, commodities, and capital. With a critical postmodern and postcolonial reorganization of margins...

...: The postmodern is a global cultural phenomenon . . . precipitated by post-industrial economics and commodification. Postmodernism, because of the globalization of information technology, not only affects the first world and second...