China, Transnational Visuality, Global Postmodernity

This ambitious work offers a comprehensive mapping of the cultural landscape of China in the late twentieth century. By focusing on Chinese cultural formations and critical discourses of the last decade of the century, the book dissects the intellectual, economic, and political contradictions of a turbulent era—post—cold war, postsocialist, and postmodern—in China’s history.

The author defines the emergent logic of Chinese postmodernity within a dominant system of global capitalism and poin...