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China and New Left Visions: Political and Cultural Interventions

By Jie Lu , Ban Wang

Book information

Publisher
Lexington Books
Year
2012
ISBN
978-0739165164
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1193218 bytes)
Pages
273\273
Topic
Literature
Time added
2016-07-24 16:43:10
Chinese literatureContemporary China

Description

Against the dire consequences of China’s market development, a new intellectual force of the New Left has come on the scene since the mid 1990s. New Left intellectuals debate the issues of social justice, distributive equality, markets, state intervention, the socialist legacy, and sustainable development. Against the neoliberal trends of free markets, liberal democracy, and consumerism, New Left critics launched a critique in hopes of seeking an alternative to global capitalism. This volume takes a comprehensive look at China’s New Left in intellectual, cultural, and literary manifestations. The writers place the New Left within a global anti-hegemonic movement and the legacy of the Cold War. They discover grassroots literature that portrays the plight and resilience of the downtrodden and disadvantaged. With historical visions the writers also shed light on the present by drawing on the socialist past.

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