China and New Left Visions
Political and Cultural Interventions
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Lexington Books
Published:20th Jul '12
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Against the dire consequences of China’s market development, a new intellectual force of the New Left has come on the scene since the mid 1990s. New Left intellectuals debate the issues of social justice, distributive equality, markets, state intervention, the socialist legacy, and sustainable development. Against the neoliberal trends of free markets, liberal democracy, and consumerism, New Left critics launched a critique in hopes of seeking an alternative to global capitalism. This volume takes a comprehensive look at China’s New Left in intellectual, cultural, and literary manifestations. The writers place the New Left within a global anti-hegemonic movement and the legacy of the Cold War. They discover grassroots literature that portrays the plight and resilience of the downtrodden and disadvantaged. With historical visions the writers also shed light on the present by drawing on the socialist past.
This book provides a broad-ranging discussion of China’s New Left’s intellectual discourse and debates since the 1990s. . . .These essays provide vivid, multi-faceted description and analyses of China’s New Left and its wide-ranging discourse. * The China Journal *
China and New Left Visions is the first book to take on the formidable rise of China's New Left primarily from the point of view of artistic expression. Most existing treatments give the impression that the New Left is constituted entirely of cultural and economic theory, but Ban Wang and Jie Lu's book dramatizes and illuminates the re-animation of popular culture, theater, and literature under New Left influence. The editors have assembled some of the most exciting commentators currently writing on the Chinese cultural scene. This book is a must read for the thoughtful China watcher. -- Charles A. Laughlin, Weedon Professor of East Asian Studies, University of Virginia
ISBN: 9780739165164
Dimensions: 234mm x 158mm x 26mm
Weight: 553g
272 pages