Popularization of traditional culture in postsocialist China : a study of the Yu Qiuyu Phenomenon
Document Type
Journal article
Source Publication
Journal of Contemporary China
Publication Date
2-2011
Volume
20
Issue
69
First Page
343
Last Page
358
Publisher
Routledge
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.
DOI
10.1080/10670564.2011.541639
Print ISSN
10670564
E-ISSN
14699400
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Full-text Version
Publisher’s Version
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Gong, H. (2011). Popularization of traditional culture in postsocialist China: A study of the Yu Qiuyu Phenomenon. Journal of Contemporary China, 20(69), 343-358. doi: 10.1080/10670564.2011.541639