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D S L EBATING THE OCIALIST EGACY AND C G C APITALIST LOBALIZATION IN HINA C I T HINA N RANSFORMATION Series Editors: Lin Chun, Carl Riskin, and Rebecca Karl China in Transformation will publish outstanding works of original research on, as well as translations and analyses of, the debates about China today. Critical and interdisciplinary in its outlook, the series seeks to situate China in its historical, regional, and international con- texts and to locate global trends with reference to China. As a flexible endeavor to identify longer-term problems and issues, the series is not constrained by discipline, perspective, or method. It launches a new perspective on China and the world in transformation that contributes to a growing and multifaceted scholarship. The Global Recession and China’s Political Economy Edited by Dali L. Yang Constructing China’s Capitalism Shanghai and the Nexus of Urban-Rural Industries By Daniel Buck Chinese Village, Global Market New Collectives and Rural Development By Tony Saich and Biliang Hu Debating the Socialist Legacy and Capitalist Globalization in China Edited by Xueping Zhong and Ban Wang D S EBATING THE OCIALIST L C EGACY AND APITALIST G C LOBALIZATION IN HINA Edited by Xueping Zhong and Ban Wang DEBATINGTHESOCIALISTLEGACYANDCAPITALISTGLOBALIZATIONINCHINA Copyright © Xueping Zhong and Ban Wang, 2014. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2014 All rights reserved. First published in 2014 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States—a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-43751-1 ISBN 978-1-137-02078-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137020789 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Debating the socialist legacy and capitalist globalization in China / edited by Xueping Zhong and Ban Wang. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978–1–137–02076–5 (hardback : alk. paper) 1. Socialism and culture—China. 2. Mixed economy—China. 3. China—Economic conditions—1976–2000. 4. China—Economic conditions—2000–5. Globalization—China. I. Zhong, Xueping, 1956– II. Wang, Ban, 1957– HX523.D43 2014 330.12(cid:25)60951—dc23 2013046956 A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. Design by Newgen Knowledge Works (P) Ltd., Chennai, India. First edition: July 2014 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 C ONTENTS Series Foreword vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Why Does Socialist Culture Matter Today? 1 Ban Wang and Xueping Zhong Part I Rethinking Socialism, Literature, and Culture 1 Shanghai as a Socialist City and Spatial Reproduction 21 LUO Gang and LI Yun 2 One Village and One Novel: Revisiting Wenquantun Village 57 HE Jixian and LU Taiguang 3 Gender Politics and the Crisis of Socialist Aesthetics: The “Room” in Woman Basketball Player No. 5 73 MAO Jian 4 The Crisis of Socialism and Efforts to Overcome It 85 CAI Xiang Part II Critical Reflection on Literature and Culture since the Reform 5 Mythification of the Reform-Era History: A Sociohistorical Analysis of the Avant-Garde Literature 109 LIU Fusheng 6 Genealogy and Ideology of the Avant-Garde Fiction 123 HE Guimei 7 Eight Key Terms in Literary Criticism 137 CAO Zhenglu vi CONTENTS 8 Enjoyment: A New Experiment on Surrealist Writing: A Dialogue between Li Tuo and Yan Lianke 151 LI Tuo and YAN Lianke Part III Debating the Rise of “New Left” Culture and “Subaltern Literature” in the Reform Era 9 The Rise of “Subaltern Literature” in the Twenty-First Century: A Speech at the Utopia Forum (2007) 165 LI Yunlei 10 A Difficult Breakthrough: On Representing Subaltern Experiences 183 NAN Fan 11 Che Guevara: Notes on the Play, Its Production, and Reception 205 HUANG Jisu Part IV People’s Literature and Culture: From Past to Future 12 The White-Haired Girl: Limitations and Potentials of the New Interpretation 219 HE Jixian 13 Subjective Identity, Revolutionary Consciousness, and People’s Literature: Zhang Chengzhi and His Literature in the New Era 239 ZHANG Hong 14 People’s Literature: An Unfinished Historical Project 253 KUANG Xinnian Notes on Contributors 273 Index 277 S F ERIES OREWORD T he “rise of China” is a cliché that resonates in China as in the rest of the world. It is now more than a century and a half since China’s self-sufficient economy was forced by gunboats and treaties to open up to an incipient global interest in a fabled market offering the vista of innumerable consumers for endless commodities. By the same token, the prospect of an “awakening” China also conjured up a fearfully racist specter of a “yellow peril” flooding the world with inscrutably industrious Chinese. The political breakdown of the country and its nationalist and socialist revolutionary struggles through much of the twentieth century deferred the market dreams. However, China has now been reconstituted as a bastion of cheap labor and manufactur- ing for the global market. In place of earlier communist fantasies, the present reality is variously viewed as a model of globalization or as an ugly capitalist dystopia. Starting around 1980, China has transformed itself again and the dream of a “rising China” has been reanimated, inviting excited speculation about the coming “Chinese century.” The nightmare of a Chinese takeover of the world—demographic as well as financial and military—has been reawakened. Within China itself, the precipitous “rise” of the past two decades has provoked a series of critical reflec- tions along with nationalistic jingoism. At the same time, China’s financial power and its capacity for investing huge shares of GDP have generated much attention to the mechanisms of the state-market dynamic. The continued hegemony of the Communist Party, which presides over a fundamental transformation of Chinese society along the ostensible lines of capitalist—or state-capitalist—production, pres- ents endless paradoxes and contradictions. The regionalization of its economy and the local variations in directing its transformative energy create opportunities for structural, institutional, and grassroots inno- vations within the overall national pattern. How can we understand the “rise of China” along with the internal and global transformations it implies? How can we peel away the lay- ers of cliché—historical and contemporary—to arrive at analytically viii SERIES FOREWORD rigorous scholarship about China’s current situation and its role in the world of which it is an increasingly important part? How can we dissect the meaning of “China’s rise,” without buying into reified fan- tasies and dystopias that characterize much current journalism and scholarship about China and the world? For this series, China in Transformation, we hope to identify and publish outstanding works of original research on, as well as transla- tions and analyses of, the debates about China today. Critical, interdis- ciplinary, and global in its outlook, the series seeks to break through the myths and ideologies surrounding the “rise of China” to arrive at a reasoned perspective on China and the world. We seek to situ- ate China in its historical, regional, and international contexts, and to locate global trends with reference to China, so as to reflect in a comprehensive way what has happened, where events/trends might be going, and why we should care. The series is intended to be a flexible endeavor to identify longer- term problems and issues. Not constrained by discipline, perspective, or method, it launches a new perspective on China in transformation that contributes to a growing and multifaceted scholarship. LIN CHUN, CARL RISKIN, and REBECCA KARL November 2011 A CKNOWLEDGMENTS T his anthology is a work of collective effort of not only the writ- ers who contributed their essays but also our colleagues who have made the publication of this book possible. We would like to thank Li Yunlei, an associate researcher at the Research Institute of Chinese Literature and Art in Beijing, for his untiring help throughout the entire process. When we proposed to Palgrave this project that seeks to reconsider socialist culture and present, in English, what Chinese writers have thought about China’s socialist legacy and postsocial- ist cultural development, we benefited greatly from advice and sug- gestions from professors Lin Chun of London School of Economics, Rebecca Karl of New York University, and Carl Riskin of Columbia University. We express our deep gratitude to them. We give thanks to our editors at Palgrave for their support of this project and for their professional guidance and much needed pressure. We also thank Ma Xu of Stanford for compiling the Index. Our editorial and transla- tion work was funded in part by funds from the Confucius Institute at Stanford University and we here acknowledge the institute’s generous support. XUEPING ZHONG and BAN WANG
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