China, transnational visuality, global postmodernity /

Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-304) and index.PART I. THEORY, CRITICISM, -- INTELLECTUAL HISTORY -- 1. Intellectuals in Transition: The Academy, the Public Sphere, and Postmodern Politics -- 2. Universality/Difference: The Discourses of Chinese Modernity, Postmodernity, and Postcoloniality -- 3. Theory and Criticism: Economic Globalization, Cultural Nationalism, Intellectual Identity -- PARTII. CINEMA -- 4. Ermo: Televisuality, Capital, and the Global Village -- COAUTHORED WITH ANNE T. CIECKO -- 5. Diaspora, Citizenship, Nationality: Hong Kong and 1997 -- 6. The Heroic Trio: Anita Mui, Maggie Cheung, -- Michelle Yeoh-Self-Reflexivity and the Globalization of the Hong Kong Action Heroine -- COAUTHORED WITH ANNE T. CIECKO -- PART III. AVANT-GARDE ART -- 7. Postmodernism and Cultural Identity in Chinese Art -- 8. The Uses of China in Avant-Garde Art: Beyond Orientalism -- PARTI. POPULAR CULTURE, TELEVISION DRAMA, LITERATURE -- 9. Popular Culture: Toward a Historical and Dialectical Method -- 10. Soap Opera: The Transnational Politics of isuatiry, Sexuality, and Masculinity -- II. Literature: Intellectuals in the Ruined Metropolis at the Fin de Siede -- Postscript: 1999 -- Notes -- Index