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Guest Editor's Introduction

Guest Editor's Introduction Fast Drive to Riches” earlier or “Chinese Face Ugly Reality: Deflation” in the wake of the NATO bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade. An inquiry into the fundamental categories to which the scholarly, journalistic, and political communities have resorted to conceptualize contemporary China’s historical transformation is long overdue. One such category is “the popular.” Old Binaries, New Problematics There has been a consensus among Western theorists to problematize the notion of “the people” as a given entity so as to strip the concept of the popular of its underlying expressive unity. This deconstructive drift has subverted both the mass culture critique (people as dupes in the hands of producers) and certain cultural populist assumptions (people as an active consumeraudience). While a methodological middle ground promising the simultaneous articulation of the productionist and consumptionist approaches to popular culture has yet to be broken, in cultural studies in the West at least, the old binary paradigm of the high and the low—constructs premised on the absolute divide between the people and intellectuals—has long since tumbled down. When we come to modern and contemporary studies of Chinese pop culture, we confront a conceptual habit that locks the “popular” into two http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png positions asia critique Duke University Press

Guest Editor's Introduction

Wang, Jing
positions asia critique , Volume 9 (1) – Mar 1, 2001
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Duke University Press
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Copyright 2001 by Duke University Press
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1067-9847
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1527-8271
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10.1215/10679847-9-1-1
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Fast Drive to Riches” earlier or “Chinese Face Ugly Reality: Deflation” in the wake of the NATO bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade. An inquiry into the fundamental categories to which the scholarly, journalistic, and political communities have resorted to conceptualize contemporary China’s historical transformation is long overdue. One such category is “the popular.” Old Binaries, New Problematics There has been a consensus among Western theorists to problematize the notion of “the people” as a given entity so as to strip the concept of the popular of its underlying expressive unity. This deconstructive drift has subverted both the mass culture critique (people as dupes in the hands of producers) and certain cultural populist assumptions (people as an active consumeraudience). While a methodological middle ground promising the simultaneous articulation of the productionist and consumptionist approaches to popular culture has yet to be broken, in cultural studies in the West at least, the old binary paradigm of the high and the low—constructs premised on the absolute divide between the people and intellectuals—has long since tumbled down. When we come to modern and contemporary studies of Chinese pop culture, we confront a conceptual habit that locks the “popular” into two

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