Chinese Literature and Culture in the Wo Public Discourses of Contemporary China: The Narration of the Nation in Popular Literatures, Film, and Television, (Hardcover)

Analyzing contemporary Chinese literature, film, and television, Shen shows the significance of nationalism for the mass imagination in post-socialist China. Chapters move from the intellectual idealism of the 1980s, through the post-Tiananmen transition, to the national cinema of the 1990s, and finally to the Internet literature of today.