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"From Modernity to Chineseness": The Rise of Nativist Cultural Theory in Post-1989 China

"From Modernity to Chineseness": The Rise of Nativist Cultural Theory in Post-1989 China positions 6:1 0 1998 by Duke University Press. Spring 1998 symbol for those who despair of the status q u o and yet cannot name its structural forms of oppression and injustice. They cannot find any welldeveloped sociopolitical vision or program to attach to that symbol. Nor do they try to create a timely conceptual framework for the problems they face under the new circumstances rising from the demoralizing combination of authoritarian control and a market economy. Their humanist-scholastic approaches have exhausted the possibilities of the enlightenment themes prevalent in cultural discussion of the 1980s. Political events of the 1990s have contradicted the humanist, progressive idea that new values will automatically lead to a new social order. Intellectual humanism seems singularly unable to account for China’s devastating reversal to authoritarian repression after the attempted intellectual liberalization and emancipation of the 1980s. Some critics turn to democratization as a new framework for cultural discussion, but they are few and can make their voices heard only outside the country.2 Within China, the aftermath of 1989 has provoked a different kind of reaction. A small group of Beijing academics, most of whom were too young to have a direct experience of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png positions asia critique Duke University Press

"From Modernity to Chineseness": The Rise of Nativist Cultural Theory in Post-1989 China

Xu, Ben
positions asia critique , Volume 6 (1) – Mar 1, 1998
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Duke University Press
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Copyright 1998 by Duke University Press
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1067-9847
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1527-8271
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10.1215/10679847-6-1-203
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positions 6:1 0 1998 by Duke University Press. Spring 1998 symbol for those who despair of the status q u o and yet cannot name its structural forms of oppression and injustice. They cannot find any welldeveloped sociopolitical vision or program to attach to that symbol. Nor do they try to create a timely conceptual framework for the problems they face under the new circumstances rising from the demoralizing combination of authoritarian control and a market economy. Their humanist-scholastic approaches have exhausted the possibilities of the enlightenment themes prevalent in cultural discussion of the 1980s. Political events of the 1990s have contradicted the humanist, progressive idea that new values will automatically lead to a new social order. Intellectual humanism seems singularly unable to account for China’s devastating reversal to authoritarian repression after the attempted intellectual liberalization and emancipation of the 1980s. Some critics turn to democratization as a new framework for cultural discussion, but they are few and can make their voices heard only outside the country.2 Within China, the aftermath of 1989 has provoked a different kind of reaction. A small group of Beijing academics, most of whom were too young to have a direct experience of

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Published: Mar 1, 1998

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