Christopher Leigh Connery
Biographic Data
| ID | 824844 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Leigh Connery |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher Leigh |
| FAMILY NAME | Connery |
| SIGNATURE | CONNERY C L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cultural Studies, University of California at Santa-Cruz, CA, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Wulumuqi Road
This article chronicles the protests in China against COVID policies that erupted in late November 2022, focusing on a detailed account of the events on Wulumuqi Road in Shanghai within the context of the historical, architectural, and social character of that neighborhood. Situating the protests in the context of the weak state of critical discourse in contemporary China—some have termed this an aspect of “depoliticization”—the article suggests …
Complicitous
Taking as its point of departure the late work of Arif Dirlik that was highly critical of the PRC state, this essay traces some of the conundrums and contradictions in the relationship between western left scholars of China, PRC “left” intellectuals, and the Chinese state over the last several decades. It suggests that, especially during the Xi Jinping era, PRC “left” intellectuals’ over-identification with the state limits critical possibilities…
Détourning the Chimera
Détourning the Chimera:Toward a Global Critical Practice Christopher Leigh Connery (bio) The variants of neoliberalism east and west of the Pacific—China’s “state neoliberalism” and the more epistemologically totalitarian version that has long been ascendant in the United States1—while providing cyclical alterations of anachronistic stick waving with the kind of symbiotic chumminess on display during Xi Jinping’s visit to Davos, do not portend an…
The Empire of the Text
Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Textual Authority and Textual Practice Chapter 3 The Shi Chapter 4 Social Texts Chapter 5 Literature
The China Difference
Postmodern Culture - Volume 2, Number 2, January 1992
Wulumuqi Road
This article chronicles the protests in China against COVID policies that erupted in late November 2022, focusing on a detailed account of the events on Wulumuqi Road in Shanghai within the context of the historical, architectural, and social character of that neighborhood. Situating the protests in the context of the weak state of critical discourse in contemporary China—some have termed this an aspect of “depoliticization”—the article suggests …
Détourning the Chimera
Détourning the Chimera:Toward a Global Critical Practice Christopher Leigh Connery (bio) The variants of neoliberalism east and west of the Pacific—China’s “state neoliberalism” and the more epistemologically totalitarian version that has long been ascendant in the United States1—while providing cyclical alterations of anachronistic stick waving with the kind of symbiotic chumminess on display during Xi Jinping’s visit to Davos, do not portend an…
The China Difference
Postmodern Culture - Volume 2, Number 2, January 1992
The Empire of the Text
Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Textual Authority and Textual Practice Chapter 3 The Shi Chapter 4 Social Texts Chapter 5 Literature
Détourning the Chimera
Détourning the Chimera:Toward a Global Critical Practice Christopher Leigh Connery (bio) The variants of neoliberalism east and west of the Pacific—China’s “state neoliberalism” and the more epistemologically totalitarian version that has long been ascendant in the United States1—while providing cyclical alterations of anachronistic stick waving with the kind of symbiotic chumminess on display during Xi Jinping’s visit to Davos, do not portend an…
Complicitous
Taking as its point of departure the late work of Arif Dirlik that was highly critical of the PRC state, this essay traces some of the conundrums and contradictions in the relationship between western left scholars of China, PRC “left” intellectuals, and the Chinese state over the last several decades. It suggests that, especially during the Xi Jinping era, PRC “left” intellectuals’ over-identification with the state limits critical possibilities…
Wulumuqi Road
This article chronicles the protests in China against COVID policies that erupted in late November 2022, focusing on a detailed account of the events on Wulumuqi Road in Shanghai within the context of the historical, architectural, and social character of that neighborhood. Situating the protests in the context of the weak state of critical discourse in contemporary China—some have termed this an aspect of “depoliticization”—the article suggests …
China (5 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (2 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (2 works) · History (2 works)