Whither China? – Intellectual Politics in Contemporary China Zhang Hardback

Whither China?Intellectual Politics in Contemporary China\nAuthor(s): Xudong Zhang\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Duke University Press, United States\nImprint: Duke University Press\nISBN-13: 9780822326595, 978-0822326595\nSynopsis\nWhither China? presents an in-depth and wide-angled picture of Chinese intellectual life during the last decade of the millennium, as China struggled to move beyond the shadow of the Tiananmen tragedy. Because many cultural and intellectual paradigms of the previous decade were left in ruins by that event, Chinese intellectuals were forced in the early 1990s to search for new analytical and critical frameworks. Soon, however, they found themselves engulfed by tidal waves of globalization, surrounded by a new social landscape marked by unabashed commodification, and stunned by a drastically reconfigured socialist state infrastructure. \nThe contributors to Whither China? describe how, instead of spearheading the popular-mandated and state-sanctioned projecg