![]() | Uneven Modernity: Literature, Film, and Intellectual Discourse in Postsocialist China Subjects: Chinese literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Motion pictures -- China; China -- Civilization -- 1976–2002; Yu Qiuyu -- Criticism and interpretation; Chi Li 1957 -- Criticism and interpretation; Feng Xiaogang -- Criticism and interpreta; Postsocialist China is marked by paradoxes: economic boom, political conservatism, cultural complexity. Haomin Gong's dynamic study of these paradoxes, or "unevenness," provides a unique and seminal approach to contemporary China. Reading unevenness as a problem and an opportunity simultaneously, Gong investigates how this dialectical social situation shapes cultural production. He begins his investigation of "uneven modernity" in China by constructing a critical framework of unevenness among different theoretical schools and expounding on how dialectical thinking points to a metaphysical paradox in capitalism and modernity: the inevitable tension between a constant pursuit of infinite fullness and a break of fullness (unevenness) as the means of this pursuit. In the Chinese context, this paradox is created in the "uneven developmentalism" that most manifestly characterizes the postsocialist period. |
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