TY - JOUR
T1 - Popularization of traditional culture in postsocialist China : a study of the Yu Qiuyu Phenomenon
AU - GONG, Haomin
PY - 2011/2/1
Y1 - 2011/2/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1080/10670564.2011.541639
DO - 10.1080/10670564.2011.541639
M3 - Journal Article (refereed)
SN - 1067-0564
VL - 20
SP - 343
EP - 358
JO - Journal of Contemporary China
JF - Journal of Contemporary China
IS - 69
ER -