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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.
Contents
Series Editor's Preface / Carlos Rojas vii
Acknowledgments xi
Editor's Introduction / Lisa Rofel xiii
Introduction / Translated by Jie Li 1
Part I. Trauma, Evacuated Memories, and Inverted Histories
1. I Want to Be Human: A Story of China and the Human / Translated by Shuang Shen 25
2. Hero and the Invisible Tianxia / Translated by Yajun Mo 47
Part II. Class, Still Lives, and Masculinity
3. Temporality, Nature Morte, and the Filmmaker: A Reconsideration of Still Life / Translated by Lennet Daigle 67
4. The Piano in a Factory: Class, in the Name of the Father / Translated by Jie Li 91
Part III. The Spy Genre
5. The Spy-Film Legacy: A Preliminary Cultural Analysis of the Spy Film / Translated by Christopher Connery 109
6. In Vogue: Politics and the Nation-State in Lust, Caution, and the Lust, Caution Phenomenon in China / Translated by Erebus Wong and Lisa Rofel 127
Finale. History, Memory, and the Politics of Representation / Translated by Rebecca E. Karl 141
Interview with Dai Jinhau, July 2014 / Lisa Rofel 160
Notes 167
Selected Works of Dai Jinhua 181
Bibliography 183
Translators' Biographies 189
Index 191
