Culture and History in Postrevolutionary China: The Perspective of Global Modernity

By Arif Dirlik

Offering critical perspectives on a number of ideological issues that have figuredprominently in Chinese intellectual discourse since the beginning of the so-called reform and opening (gaige kaifang) in the late 1970s, these essays range widely in subject matter, from Marxist historiography to sociology and anthropology in China to guoxue/national studies. Together they are conceived as different windows into a basic problem: the deployment of culture and history in postrevolutionary Chinese thought. Arif Dirlik touches on a number of themes, including the repudiation of the revolutionary past after 1978, which has led to a rise of cultural nationalism. He further places these developments within a global context, ultimately making a case methodologically for "worlding" China: bringing China into the world and the world into China.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9629964740
• ISBN13: 9789629964740
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 8.6"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher