TY - BOOK ID - 137107678 TI - After the post-cold war : the future of Chinese history AU - Dai, Jinhua AU - Rofel, Lisa PY - 2018 SN - 9781478000518 9781478000389 PB - Durham Duke University Press DB - UniCat KW - Motion pictures KW - Motion pictures and history KW - History KW - China KW - Civilization UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137107678 AB - "In After the Post-Cold War eminent Chinese cultural critic Dai Jinhua interrogates history, memory, and the future of China as a global economic power in relation to its socialist past, profoundly shaped by the Cold War. Drawing on Marxism, post-structuralism, psychoanalysis, and feminist theory, Dai examines recent Chinese films that erase the country's socialist history to show how such erasure resignifies socialism's past as failure and thus forecloses the imagining of a future beyond that of globalized capitalism. She outlines the tension between China's embrace of the free market and a regime dependent on a socialist imprimatur. She also offers a genealogy of China's transformation from a source of revolutionary power into a fountainhead of globalized modernity. This narrative, Dai contends, leaves little hope of moving from the capitalist degradation of the present into a radical future that might offer a more socially just world." -- Publisher's description. ER -