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Reviews 287 Rong Cai. The Subject in Crisis in Contemporary Chinese Literature. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2004 . xii, 282 pp. Hardcover $55 . , isbn 0 –8248 –2761 –9 . Paperback $25 .00 , isbn 0 –8248 –2846 –1 . Post–Deng Xiaoping China has been an intriguing subject of inquiry for scholars in both the humanities and the social sciences. Under the onslaught of capitalism and globalization, Chinese society since the 1980 s has been undergoing tremen- dous sociocultural change. The Subject in Crisis in Contemporary Chinese Litera- ture by Rong Cai is a study that focuses on the dissection of an important phe- nomenon pertinent to our understanding of contemporary China: an ideological vacuum after the bankruptcy of Maoism and how this void manifests itself in the troubled post-Mao subject. Taking root-seeking literature as her point of depar- ture, Cai identifies the attempt to (re)construct the subject and to reassert hu- manist values as the central task for writer-intellectuals after the Cultural Revolu- tion and during the optimistic 1980 s, until the Tiananmen incident put an end to their effort and the idealism that permeated that decade. Cai extends her explora- tion to the 1990 s,
China Review International – University of Hawai'I Press
Published: Jun 28, 2005
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