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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 341 pages. The cover is a little worn. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown. Size: Size E: 8"-9" Tall (203-228mm).

Paperback. Condition: New. New softcover in printed wraps. 8vo. (5.8 x 1.2 x 9.2 inches) Sound binding. Clean text free of marks or underlining. Includes a glossary, list of contributors and an index. 464 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Few countries have been so transformed in recent decades as China. With a dynamically growing economy and a rapidly changing social structure, China challenges the West to understand the nature of its modernization. Using postmodernism as both a global frame of periodization and a way to break free from the rigid ideology of westernization as modernity, this volume's diverse group of contributors argues that the Chinese experience is crucial for understanding postmodernism. Collectively, these essays question the implications of specific phenomena, like literature, architecture, rock music, and film, in a postsocialist society. Some essays address China's complicity in-as well as its resistance to-the culture of global capitalism. Others evaluate the impact of efforts to redefine national culture in terms of enhanced freedoms and expressions of the imagination in everyday life. Still others discuss the general relaxation of political society in post-Mao China, the emergence of the market and its consumer mass culture, and the fashion and discourse of nostalgia. The contributors make a clear case for both the historical uniqueness of Chinese postmodernism and the need to understand its specificity in order to fully grasp the condition of postmodernity worldwide. Although the focus is on mainland China, the volume also includes important observations on social and cultural realities in Hong Kong and Taiwan, whose postmodernity has so far been confined-in both Chinese and English-speaking worlds-to their economic and consumer activities instead of their political and cultural dynamism. First published as a special issue of boundary 2, Postmodernism and China includes seven new essays. By juxtaposing postmodernism with postsocialism and by analyzing China as a producer and not merely a consumer of the culture of the postmodern, it will contribute to critical discourses on globalism, modernity, and political economics, as well as to cultural and Asian studies. Contributors. Evans Chan, Arif Dirlik, Dai Jinhua, Liu Kang, Anthony D. King, Jeroen de Kloet, Abidin Kusno, Wendy Larson, Chaoyang Liao, Ping-hui Liao, Sebastian Hsien-hao Liao, Sheldon Hsiao-peng Lu, Wang Ning, Xiaobing Tang, Xiaoying Wang, Chen Xiaoming, Xiaobin Yang, Zhang Yiwu, Xudong Zhang.…

Paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 368 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 464 pages. 9.50x6.00x1.25 inches. In Stock.

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 2nd edition. 278 pages. 8.75x5.75x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 329 pages. 9.00x5.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 384 pages. 9.25x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 352 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.71 inches. In Stock.

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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 544 pages. 8.75x6.00x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 316 pages. 8.75x5.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 318 pages. 9.06x6.22x1.10 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 396 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 178 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 506 pages in excellent condition. Illustrated. Black hardcovers with gilt titles on the spine. Corners very lightly bumped. Illustrated white DJ with black titles. No wear. NEAR FINE/FINE. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 300 pages. 8.75x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 368 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.25 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 464 pages. 9.50x6.00x1.25 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.