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Dialogues on Cultural Studies : Interviews with Contemporary Critics

2002

As for the function of the university and the role of the intellectual, there is also a wide spectrum of conflicting views. [...] According to Jameson, the defining feature of late capitalism is multi-national or globalized capital, and "global- ization is very much an expansive process, but it's one of a very dif- ferent type from the old imperialist one." In Miyoshi's assessment, the end of the Cold War around 1990 marked the inauguration of globalization when "the hegemony of the state was clearly replaced by the dominant [...] Actually, it is argu- able that the book is already a dialogue between China and the West in that the questions are posed with a sense of a Chinese readership who watch and participate in the processes of differentiation, global- ization, and modernization from the other side of the Pacific Ocean. [...] Emerging from a dialogue with its cultural tradition and with the hegemonic western discourse of modernity, the Chinese discourse of modernity has always been evolving against the ghost of its own burdensome past and against the threat of an imperial West, and this tension, to a large extent, accounts for why China and the Chinese have always been ambivalent toward the kind of modernity championed [...] The end of ide- ology goes hand in hand with the demise of the subject, the end of history, end of utopianism, and so on.
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Authors

Shaobo Xie

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Includes bibliographical references and index
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301/.01
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21
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Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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9781552383278 1552380742
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HM623
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D52 2002eb
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1 electronic text (xviii, 280 p.)
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(CaBNVSL)gtp00521658 (OCoLC)180704046 (CaOOCEL)402780
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