Abstract
This essay investigates the ‘Yu Qiuyu’ Phenomenon that attracted literary and critical attention in the 1990s. By examining the historical conditions under which it arose and the prose as a literary genre, I argue that Yu Qiuyu's ‘cultural prose’ writing exemplifies a paradoxical cultural logic deeply symptomatic of postsocialist China: traditional culture, with all its cultural elitism, strategically responds to the sweeping commercialization and re-identifies itself in the social transformation.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 343-358 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Journal | Journal of Contemporary China |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue number | 69 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Feb 2011 |
| Externally published | Yes |