Popularization of Traditional Culture in Postsocialist China
A study of the Yu Qiuyu Phenomenon
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12423153 |
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| Authors | Haomin Gong (0000-0003-0285-6649, St. Mary's College of Maryland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 69 |
| Pages | 343-358 |
| Publication date | 2011-02-06 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Contemporary China (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1067-0564 • E-ISSN: 1469-9400 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10670564.2011.541639 |
| OpenAlex | W2011756519 |
| Language | EN |
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
Aesthetics · Art · China · Commercialization · Cultural phenomenon · Elitism · Epistemology · Literature · Phenomenon · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Chinese history and philosophy · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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