Xiaomei Chen: 3 books
Staging Chinese Revolution
Theater, Film, and the Afterlives of Propaganda
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Staging Chinese Revolution surveys fifty years of theatrical propaganda performances in China, revealing a dynamic, commercial capacity in works often dismissed as artifacts of censorship. Spanning the 1960s through the 2010s, Xiaomei Chen reads films, plays, operas, and television shows from an interdisciplinary...
Occidentalism
A Theory of Counter-Discourse in Post-Mao China
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 1995
Xiaomei Chen offers an insightful account of the unremittingly favorable depiction of Western culture and its negative characterization of Chinese culture in post-Mao China from 1978-1988. Chen examines the cultural and political interrelations between the East and West from a vantage point more complex...
China and New Left Visions
Political and Cultural Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
Against the dire consequences of China’s market development, a new intellectual force of the New Left has come on the scene since the mid 1990s. New Left intellectuals debate the issues of social justice, distributive equality, markets, state intervention, the socialist legacy, and sustainable development....