Red Nostalgia
Commemorating Mao in Our Time
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5775033 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ruth Y Y Hung (0000-0003-0309-8456, Hong Kong Baptist University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 371-384 |
| Publication date | 2015-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Literature Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1741-4113 • E-ISSN: 1741-4113 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/lic3.12245 |
| OpenAlex | W1906108089 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 18 |
This essay departs from the figure of exoticism to theorize chinoiserie for the twenty-first century, so we may better address the new realities and forces at work in the context surrounding the (re)creation and redefinition of the "orient." The paper takes as its focus the cult of posthumous Mao that became fervent in the 1990s and has since the turn of the millennium created a nexus in which global capitalism and "effective authoritarianism" negotiate conflicting interests and, together, create a line of development in their search for a global modernity. I argue that Chinese state capitalism in the twenty-first century took advantage of cultural consumerism made possible by global capital while working upon and with the genealogy of orientalism, of chinoiserie, in the so-called West. I seek to show that the commodity industry of posthumous Mao today witnesses chinoiserie's transformation from a western fantasy into a policed imagination - a chinoiserie with Chinese characteristics. For the first time, perhaps, in the case of "China," the orient constructs itself, for its own purposes, as the "Orient," the product of a new chinoiserie that serves the state along the lines of its nationalist and universalizing ambitions
Aesthetics · Ancient history · Art · Art history · Authoritarianism · Capitalism · Cosmopolitanism · Cult · Democracy · Exoticism · Fantasy · Literature · Modernity · Nationalism · Orient · Orientalism · Political science · Sociology · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law
Counterinsurgency Warfare
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
Shades of Mao
Ideographia
To Be Worthy of the Suffering and Survival’
Permission to Narrate
Counterinsurgency Warfare
The idea of a ‘Chinese model
Revolution Remembered
Anthropology and Global Counterinsurgency
Imagination Sterilized
Writing the Self
Using the Past to Serve the Present
(Re)collecting Mao
On Alternative Modernities
Global Modernity
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |