Liu Kang argues that globalization is not simply a new conceptual framework through which cultural change in China can be understood; it is a historical condition in which the country's ""gaige kaifang"" (reform and opening up) has unfolded, and a set of values or ideologies by which it and the rest of the globe is judged. In five clear and concise chapters, Liu examines China's ideological struggles in political discourse, intellectual debate, popular culture, avant-garde literature, the news media and the internet. He constructs an understanding of post-revolutionary Chinese culture, making the case that Mao's ideology has been gutted, and arguing for its value in providing China with its own cultural identity, curbing the excesses of capitalism, and putting forward an alternative model of modernization.
- ISBN10 082482704X
- ISBN13 9780824827045
- Publish Date 20 January 2004 (first published 31 December 2003)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 18 February 2014
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Hawai'i Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 236
- Language English