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Palgrave MacMillan Public Discourses of Contemporary China The Narration of the Nation in Popular Literatures Film and Television 2015 Edition by Y. Shen
Analyzing contemporary Chinese literature, film, and television, Shen shows the significance of nationalism for the mass imagination in post-socialist China. Chapters move from the intellectual idealism of the 1980s, through the post-Tiananmen transition, to the national cinema of the 1990s, and finally to the Internet literature of today. Table of contents :- Introduction 1. Heshang: Socialist Historical Consciousness in Transformation and the 1980s Pedagogy of Reform 2. Making Money Is Patriotic: New Immigrant Fiction of the Early 1990s 3. Patriotism, History, and Leitmotif Films in the Late 1990s 4. Netizens, Counter-memories, and Internet Literature into the New Millennium Conclusion: Dreams in the Twenty-First Century