China, Transnational Visuality, Global Postmodernity

List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi List of Abbreviations xv Introduction: Postmodernity, Visuality, and China in the Late Twentieth Century 1(30) PART I. THEORY, CRITICISM, INTELLECTUAL HISTORY Intellectuals in Transition: The Academy, the Public Sphere, and Postmodern Politics 31(17) Universality/Difference: The Discourses of Chinese Modernity, Postmodernity, and Postcoloniality 48(23) Theory and Criticism: Economic Globalization, Cultural Nationalism, Intellectual Identity 71(18) PART II. CINEMA Ermo: Televisuality, Capital, and the Global Village 89(15) Anne T. Ciecko Diaspora, Citizenship, Nationality: Hong Kong and 1997 104(18) The Heroic Trio: Anita Mui, Maggie Cheung, Michelle Yeoh---Self-Reflexivity and the Globalization of the Hong Kong Action Heroine 122(19) Anne T. Ciecko PART III. AVANT-GARDE ART Postmodernism and Cultural Identity in Chinese Art 141(32) The Uses of China in Avant-Garde Art: Beyond Orientalism 173(22) PART IV. POPULAR CULTURE, TELEVISION DRAMA, LITERATURE Popular Culture: Toward a Historical and Dialectical Method 195(18) Soap Opera: The Transnational Politics of Visuality, Sexuality, and Masculinity 213(26) Literature: Intellectuals in the Ruined Metropolis at the Fin de Siecle 239(22) Postscript: 1999 261(8) Notes 269(36) Index 305