China's New Cultural Scene: A Handbook of ChangesDuke University Press, 2000 - 258 Seiten The Cultural Revolution of China's Maoist era has come and gone, yet another cultural revolution of a different sort has been sweeping through China in the 1990s. Although recently much interest has been focused on China's economy, few Westerners are aware of the remarkable transformations occurring in the culture of ordinary people's daily lives. In China's New Cultural Scene Claire Huot surveys the wide spectrum of art produced by Chinese musicians, painters, writers, performers, and filmmakers today, portraying an ongoing cultural revolution that has significantly altered life in the People's Republic. Western observers who were impressed by the bravery of the demonstrators in Tiananmen Square--and stunned at the harshness of their suppression--will learn from this book how that political movement led to changes in cultural conditions and production. Attending to all the major elements of this vast nation's high and low culture at the end of a landmark decade, Huot's discussion ranges from the cinematic works of Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, and others to emerging musical forms such as rock, punk, and rap. Other topics include television, theater, and avant-garde art, the new electronic media, and subversive trends in both literature and the visual arts. With a comprehensive index of artists and works, as well as a glossary of Chinese words, China's New Cultural Scene will enlighten students of Chinese culture and general readers interested in contemporary Asia. |
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Seite 40 - The subject is not determined by the rules through which it is generated because signification is not a founding act, but rather a regulated process of repetition that both conceals itself and enforces its rules precisely through the production of substantializing effects. In a sense, all signification takes place within the orbit of the compulsion to repeat; "agency," then, is to be located within the possibility of a variation on that repetition.
Seite 40 - The rules that govern intelligible identity, ie, that enable and restrict the intelligible assertion of an "I," rules that are partially structured along matrices of gender hierarchy and compulsory heterosexuality, operate through repetition. Indeed, when the subject is said to be constituted, that means simply that the subject is a consequence of certain rule-governed discourses that govern the intelligible invocation of identity.
Seite 110 - I respectfully invoke the heroic, aggrieved souls wandering in the boundless bright-red sorghum fields of my hometown As your unfilial son, I am prepared to carve out my heart, marinate it in soy sauce, have it minced and placed in three bowls, and lay it out as an offering in a field of sorghum Partake of it in good health!
Seite 32 - I called her Mag, when I had to call her something. And I called her Mag because for me, without my knowing why, the letter g abolished the syllable Ma, and as it were spat on it, better than any other letter would have done.
Seite 80 - For me, a creator of theatre, the important thing is not the words but what we do with these words, what gives life to the inanimate words of the text, what transforms them into The Word.
Seite 126 - One sees the wagon dragged back, the oxen halted, a man's hair and nose cut off.
Seite 1 - ... interrupted cadence, before flying off as well, leaving the feeder swinging. It seemed like an omen to Felicity, and a good one. A rebirth, a new chance, the finishing of what had begun. Hexagram Sixty Four in the / Ching. She could all but see the page before her. Before completion. Success. But if the little fox, after nearly completing the crossing, Gets his tail in the water, There is nothing that would further. In other words, take care. You were not there yet. Things moved towards fruition...
Seite 154 - He penetrates the left side of the belly. One gets at the very heart of the darkening of the light, And leaves gate and courtyard.
Seite 32 - Bits of ice are forming in my stomach. When I sit down in my armchair I can hear them clinking away." I had been intending to give my desk drawers a cleaning, but Mother was always stealthily making trouble. She'd walk to and fro in the next room, stamping, stamping, to my great distraction. I tried to ignore it, so I got a pack of cards and played, murmuring "one, two, three, four, five. . . .
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