New Asian Marxisms

New Asian Marxisms

  • Author: Barlow, Tani; Pietz, William; Dutton, Michael; Howland, Douglas R.; Jinhua, Dai
  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • Serie: a positions book
  • ISBN: 9780822328582
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780822383352
  • Place of publication:  Durham , United States
  • Year of digital publication: 2002
  • Month: April
  • Pages: 440
  • DDC: 335.4/098
  • Language: English
Displaying the particular vitality of the global traditions of Marxism and neomarxism at the beginning of the twenty-first century, New AsianMarxisms collects essays by a diverse group of scholars—historians, political scientists, literary scholars, and sociologists—who offer a range of studies of the Marxist heritage focusing on Korea, Japan, India, and China.

While some of these essays take up key thinkers in Marxist history or draw attention to outstanding problematics, others focus on national literature and discourse in North and South Korea, the "Mao Zedong Fever" of the 1990s, the implications of Li Dazhao's poetry, and the Indian Naxalite movement.  Illustrating the importance of central analytical categories like exploitation, alienation, and violence to studies on the politics of knowledge, contributors confront prevailing global consumerist fantasies
with accounts of political struggle, cultural displacement, and theoretical strategies.

Contributors. Tani E. Barlow, Dai Jinhua, Michael Dutton, D. R. Howland, Marshall Johnson, Liu Kang, You-me Park, William Pietz, Claudia Pozzana, Alessandro Russo, Sanjay Seth, Gi-Wook Shin, Sugiyama Mitsunobu, Jing Wang

  • CONTENTS
  • Preface: Everything Diverges
  • Introduction: Decency and Debasement
  • Dreaming of Better Times: ‘‘Repetition with a Difference’’ and Community Policing in China
  • Constructing Perry’s ‘‘Chinaman’’ in the Context of Adorno and Benjamin
  • Redemption and Consumption: Depicting Culture in the 1990s
  • Making Time: Historic Preservation and the Space of Nationality
  • Aesthetics and Chinese Marxism
  • The World Conception of Japanese Social Science: The Kōza Faction, the Otsuka School, and the Uno School of Economics
  • ‘‘And They Would Start Again’’: Women and Struggle in Korean Nationalist Literature
  • Spring, Temporality, and History in Li Dazhao
  • Spring
  • The Probable Defeat: Preliminary Notes on the Chinese Cultural Revolution
  • Interpreting Revolutionary Excess: The Naxalite Movement in India, 1967–1971
  • Marxism, Anti-Americanism, and Democracy in South Korea: An Examination of Nationalist Intellectual Discourse
  • ‘‘Who Am I?’’—Questions of Voluntarism in the Paradigm of Socialist Alienation
  • Contributors
  • Index

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