Debating the Socialist Legacy and Capitalist Globalization in China

Table of Contents Introduction: Why Does Socialist Culture Matter Today? PART I: RETHINKING SOCIALISM, LITERATURE, AND CULTURE 1. Shanghai as a Socialist City and Spatial Reconstruction; Luo Gang and Li Yun 2. One Village and One Novel: Revisiting Wenquantun Village; He Jixian and Lu Taiguang 3. Gender Politics and the Crisis of Socialist Aesthetics; Mao Jian 4. The Crisis of Socialism and Efforts to Overcome It; Cai Xiang PART II: CRITICAL REFLECTION ON LITERATURE AND CULTURE SINCE THE REFORM 5. Mythification of the Reform-Era History: A Social-Historical Analysis of the Avant-Garde Literature; Liu Fusheng 6. Genealogy and Ideology of the Avant-Garde Fiction; He Guimei 7. Eight Key Terms in Literary Criticism; Cao Zhenglu 8. Enjoyment: A New Experiment on Surrealist Writing: A Dialogue between Li Tuo and Yan Lianke PART III: DEBATING THE RISE OF 'NEW LEFT' CULTURE AND 'SUBALTERN LITERATURE' IN THE REFORM ERA 9. The Rise of 'Subaltern Literature' in the 21st Century: A Speech at the Utopian Forum (2007); Li Yunlei 10. A Difficult Breakthrough: On Representing Subaltern Experiences; Nan Fan 11. Che Guevara: Notes on the Play, Its Production, and Reception; Huang Jisu PART IV: PEOPLE'S LITERATURE AND CULTURE: FROM PAST TO FUTURE 12. The White-Haired Girl: Limitations and Potential of the New Interpretation; He Jixian 13. Subjective Identity, Revolutionary Consciousness, and People's Literature: Zhang Chengzhi and His Literature in the New Era; Zhang Hong 14. People's Literature: An Unfinished Historical Project; Kuang Xinnian